Consumers of political content on the internet may have noticed the preponderant tone of outrage. Readers are regularly urged to rise up in fury at unacceptable, racist, proto-fascist, and other repugnant views, policies, and activities of their political opponents. This unfortunate state of affairs is facilitated by the anonymity of many political websites, blogs, comment boxes, and discussion rooms.One further trend damaging to civil political discourse is the increased tendency, especially on the internet, to retreat to one's echo chamber to hear only one-sided opinion. A sample of the i…READ FULL ARTICLE
