Outrage as Language of Social Media Discourse: Analysing Prevalence and Effects

Abstract

Through analysis of studies in the fields of communication, psychology, linguistics, and computer science, this study examines the role of outrage in the discourse on social media platforms, and its subsequent effect on the offline movements. A systematic literature review was conducted of thirteen research papers after a thorough filtering process to identity the most relevant papers for this study. Results show that there is an increased use of moral emotional language in civic discourse online. Additionally, a relation has also been established between the moral emotional language and support for violence offline. The findings tell us how outrage is becoming a default language on social media and how it is impacting our social and political culture