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June 20, 2026Open Access

Tracing the Social Construction of Abortion Attitudes in Online Discourse

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EGEmma Griffin

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Overview

Randomized trial examines abortion attitudes in online discourse, suggesting implications for understanding polarization.

Key Points

  • This research aims to explore how societal attitudes towards abortion are shaped and expressed in online spaces through social constructionist theory.
  • Analyzed 2.5 million Reddit comments, refined to 27,451, using keyword classification and Support Vector Classification.
  • Employed topic modeling (BERTTopic) to identify attitudinal stances of comments: 'Pro-Choice', 'Pro-Life', and 'No Stance/Neutral'.
  • Investigated the effectiveness of computational methods in uncovering patterns of polarization and social meaning-making.
  • Pro-Life discourse shows a tight semantic structure and is more elite-driven, aligning with previous research themes.
  • Pro-Choice discourse is more decentralized and less consistent than Pro-Life, indicating varied public engagement.
  • Computational models effectively identified theoretical constructs of polarization and social construction processes in the digital text.

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Emma Griffin (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a363147db0793dc1a538430https://doi.org/10.6082/0dtp4-k9s08
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