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Today, with the increase in the popularity of digital social media environments, the potential for individuals to participate in online social and political discussions has also increased rapidly. However, modern online information environments are filled with disagreements arising from arbitrarily shared politically value-laden posts. The fundamental dynamic of the research is the question of dissemination of politically value-laden posts which are mostly uncivil such as provocative, aggressive, insulting, libelous comments or discourses that have othering effect and its reflection on online and offline daily relationships among younger individuals. Indeed, it has been aimed at examining the degree to which politically value-laden online posts of youths, studying at tertiary level, often that go beyond the limits of civil comments or discourses contributes to counter-party alienation and to otherizing process or to the production (or reproduction) of a general social-political polarization climate. In this framework, an explanatory, descriptive and interpretive analysis was carried out by presenting field data collected through quantitative and qualitative methods. Research findings show that uncivil politically value-laden posts through digital social networks directly affects the (online and offline) everyday relationships of individuals and leads to the practice of othering. When politically value-laden posts become uncivil, these can become a source of tension and polarity. When people are confronted with politically motivated conflicts and when they are exposed to uncivil comments or discourses, they are often more likely to consider the ideas that confirm their own views, rather than to accept the existence of different ideas, and have a more extreme or partisan attitude. These extreme views and attitudes lead to conflict and polarization or reproduce the existing polarization more and more.

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