Can Outrage Foster Slactivism?

Port molly crockett and william brady are studying whether outrage might also be counterproductive to activeness. Does blasting out angry tweeds cause some people to feel they have done their part to forego the more difficult challenges of protesting in public, driving legislation or showing up to vote? In other words, can outrage foster slactivism? I think that's a genuine worry. If you're dialing up the volume on all outrage, then it may become more difficult to detect signal in an increasingly noisy public sphere. This could increase errors that we make in deciding which issues we collectively think are most worthy of our attention....