Fantastic bystanders and where to find them: Do emotions fuel (in)direct interventions when bystanders face anti-LGBTQIA+ hostility on social media?

Melanie Saumer; Kevin Koban; Jörg Matthes

Fantastic bystanders and where to find them: Do emotions fuel (in)direct interventions when bystanders face anti-LGBTQIA+ hostility on social media?

Department of Communication

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Original language	English
Journal	Mass Communication and Society
Publication status	Accepted/In press - Feb 2026

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

508007 Communication science

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