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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.
- Emily Kubin, Emily Kubin, Christian von Sikorski
- 2021
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
Oct 1, 2022 · Which technological, behavioral, social, and policy interventions can facilitate civic and political engagement without aiding polarization? Does social media accentuate polarization for those who already hold partisan views offline?
Dec 21, 2022 · Recent research suggests that social media can inflame polarization, even if the full relationship between digital platforms and polarized attitudes remains uncertain.
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.
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).
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Feb 7, 2024 · We argue that users’ perceptions of platform affordances influence both (a) their self-participation in uncivil political discussion on social media and (b) perceptions of others’ engagement, which eventually shape their perceptions of polarization.
