The Internet and Civility in Politics

Has the Internet harmed our political system by encouraging polarization and incivility?  If so, should we do something about it?  Notice that polarization and incivility are different issues; discuss their relationship, don't just lump them together.



Negativity and Polarization on the Internet
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/facebook-age-anonymity-civility-freedom-speech/story?id=13735349#.UFc1Z65U3Tp
http://bigthink.com/think-tank/is-the-internet-polarizing-politics
http://dukediscourse.ning.com/forum/topics/new-research-from-incivility
http://digitalethics.org/essays/ethics-of-anonymous-comments/
http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/images/public_education/civility-conf-report.pdf


Can we enforce civility?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/opinion/sunday/sunday-dialogue-anonymity-and-incivility-on-the-internet.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/16/most-comments-are-horrible-sites-look-for-ways-to-make-them-better.html
http://media.azpm.org/master/document/2012/6/4/pdf/FreedomofSpeechandCivility.pdf