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- While social media is often blamed for exacerbating incivility and partisan polarization, research led by Duke University scholars found that anonymous online conversations using a mobile chat platform they developed can reduce political polarization. The research also showed how varying levels of anonymity can shape conversations about politics.
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Sep 21, 2021 · No experiments provided insights into ways social media can decrease (or have no effect) on ideological polarization. Regarding affective polarization, nearly all experiments found that social media can further affectively polarize people.
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In high-polarization countries, political cleavages are made...
- Full article: Social Media Use and Political Engagement in ...
In high-polarization countries, political cleavages are made more salient on social media, which can reduce social trust and cohesion among citizens (Lee, Citation 2022). This should lower citizens’ satisfaction with democracy.
Rising political polarization is, in part, attributed to the fragmentation of news media and the spread of misinformation on social media. Previous reviews have yet to assess the full breadth of research on media and polarization.
- Emily Kubin, Emily Kubin, Christian von Sikorski
- 2021
Jun 19, 2024 · Do social networks and their algorithms really amplify political hostility and polarisation? Interdisciplinary research nuances this pessimistic view.
Jun 6, 2024 · The connection between two waves of polarization is weakened by social media adoption but strengthened by social media organization. Drawing on social identity theory, we synthesize the findings and propose two theoretical routes to explain the influence of social media on political polarization.
Feb 7, 2024 · Our follow-up experimental study illustrated that participants with more frequent engagement in uncivil discussion, irrespective of interacting with civil or uncivil comments, showed consistently higher levels of intrapersonal reflection, which reduces perceived polarization.
Nov 1, 2021 · A popular notion is that social media increases political polarization by creating online political echo chambers (i.e., exposing individuals to increasingly partisan and polarizing content over time due to selective exposure and fringe content sites).
