Incivility and Contentiousness Spillover between COVID-19 and Climate Science Engagement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05255v1
• Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:08:50 GMT
• Title: Incivility and Contentiousness Spillover between COVID-19 and Climate Science Engagement
• Authors: Hasti Narimanzadeh, Arash Badie-Modiri, Iuliia Smirnova, Ted Hsuan Yun Chen,
• Abstract summary: We study cross-domain spillover of incivility and contentiousness in public engagements with climate change and climate science on Twitter and Reddit. We find strong evidence of the signatures of affective polarization surrounding COVID-19 spilling into the climate change domain.
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• Abstract: Affective polarization and its accompanying cleavage-based sorting drives incivility and contentiousness around climate change and other science-related issues. Looking at the COVID-19 period, we study cross-domain spillover of incivility and contentiousness in public engagements with climate change and climate science on Twitter and Reddit. We find strong evidence of the signatures of affective polarization surrounding COVID-19 spilling into the climate change domain. Across different social media systems, COVID-19 content is associated with incivility and contentiousness in climate discussions. These patterns of increased antagonism were responsive to pandemic events that made the link between science and public policy more salient. We also show that the observed spillover activated along pre-pandemic political cleavages, specifically anti-internationalist populist beliefs, that linked climate policy opposition to vaccine hesitancy. Our findings highlight the dangers of entrenched cross-domain polarization manifesting as spillover of antagonistic behavior.

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