Characterizing Disagreement in Online Political Talk: Examining Incivility and Opinion Expression on News Websites and Facebook in Brazil

This paper examines the ways people engage in political conversation triggered by exposure to news two different informal platforms Brazil: Facebook and websites. We analyze extent which disagreement is associated discursive traits that are commonly with deliberative behavior, such as directly engaging others, trying justify one’s views, negative traits, incivility. The contributions of this can be summarized follows. First, emphasizes importance looking beyond a single platform topic understand discussion online. Second, we demonstrate online positively both justified opinion expression, non-deliberative incivility, argue latter not enough dismiss value talk. also story relevant drive spark disagreement: controversies involving celebrities stories covering international affairs more likely heterogeneous conversations than conventional topics (e.g. government, policy), even though these tend attract Finally, study contributes fill an important gap literature, US Western European contexts examining talk Brazil, fourth largest digital market world.