ICPS
2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021
Moral Disengagement and Online Crime Descriptions of Animal Activists
- Marina Mery
The University of Oklahoma - Divya Patel
The University of Oklahoma - Bachazile Sikhondze
The University of Oklahoma - Shane Connelly
University of Oklahoma - Matthew Jensen
The University of Oklahoma - Shaila Miranda
The University of Oklahoma
Abstract
Ideological groups communicate in social media to relay information and build support. Animal activists’ online postings describing various crimes were coded for crime type, severity, and moral disengagement rhetoric. Moral justification and euphemistic labeling were the most commonly used mechanisms and differed in level across crime types.
Communication
