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Sep 21, 2021 · Further, we call on future research to consider using (social) media as a tool to reduce political polarization in the public and to provide those in the newsroom with more insights and evidence-based information on how to prevent media coverage from unwittingly increasing polarization.
- Full article: Social Media Use and Political Engagement in ...
Combining Varieties of Democracy (VDEM) and World Values...
- Full article: Social Media Use and Political Engagement in ...
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.
Combining Varieties of Democracy (VDEM) and World Values Survey (WVS) data, this study examines how issue polarization and affective polarization at the country level shape the relationships between social media use for political information and democratic outcomes in 27 developed democracies.
media can influence political polarization – suggesting the media may not significantly influence the average persons’ polarization. However, this review fails to make a distinction between affective and ideological polarization, rather grouping both into the overarching umbrella of ‘political 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.
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Despite this apparent consensus, empirical studies offer a much more nuanced view of how social media affects political polarization, oftentimes questioning basic premises of this argument.
