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Toxicity Begets Toxicity: Unraveling Conversational Chains in Political Podcasts

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  • Haebom

Author

Naquee Rizwan, Nayandeep Deb, Sarthak Roy, Vishwajeet Singh Solanki, Kiran Garimella, Animesh Mukherjee

Outline

This paper focuses on podcasts, particularly political podcasts, which despite their rapidly growing popularity, have been underresearched for toxic behavior. We build a dataset of political podcast conversations and analyze their structure to examine how toxic language emerges and escalates, particularly how toxic language worsens over time through a series of responses. This study extends the research on toxic behavior to the novel domain of podcasts, a field that is distinct from platforms like social networks or message boards.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways: Understanding patterns of toxic behavior within podcasts can contribute to the development of strategies to mitigate them. Specifically, analyzing conversational structure to uncover the process by which toxic speech spreads can help develop effective intervention and prevention strategies. The analysis of the specialized field of political podcasts can provide insights applicable to other types of podcasts and online conversations.
Limitations: The analysis was limited to a specific political podcast, requiring review for generalizability. The size and composition of the dataset may limit the generalizability of the results. Furthermore, subjectivity in the definition and measurement of toxicity may exist, potentially biasing the interpretation of the results. Due to the nature of podcasts, nonverbal factors (such as tone and intonation) are not considered, which may affect the accuracy of toxicity assessments.
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