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   Why is political polarization rising?

   • 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.

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   Does social media polarization affect democratic outcomes?

   • 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.

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   Does social media shape political polarization?

   • Future research should focus on the role other social media platforms have in shaping polarization. Given Facebook’s penetration across the globe (Tan-kovska, 2021a), and much larger user base than Twitter (Tankovska, 2021b), we especially rec-ommend further examination of how this platform shapes political polarization.

   The role of (social) media in political polarization: a systematic review

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   Does social media influence perceptions of polarization?

   • Borrowing from these insights, we apply a perceived affordance approach to examine the role of social media in (mis)perceptions of polarization and hypothesize that users’ perceptions of affordances influence their participation in uncivil political discussion on social media, which eventually shapes their perceptions of polarization.

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   Can social media help reduce polarization?

   • Social media companies are often blamed for driving greater polarization by virtue of the way they segment political audiences and personalize recommendations in line with their users’ existing beliefs and preferences. Given their scale and reach, however, they are also uniquely positioned to help reduce polarization.

   How social media platforms can reduce polarization - Brookings

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   Does media affect political polarization?

   • We find that most studies find a link between selective exposure to (social) media and political polarization and that most experiments find that media exacerbates both ideological and affective polarization – though future research should also consider the effect of visuals in media contexts (von Sikorski, 2021).

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2. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullThe role of (social) media in political polarization: a ...

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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.

3. www.brookings.edu › articles › how-social-mediaHow social media platforms can reduce polarization - Brookings

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   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.

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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.

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   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.

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   Jul 23, 2020 · You may not be able to alter someone’s deeper beliefs, but there are three ways regular people on social media can get others to remove hateful messages, reduce the spread of hateful memes, and curb prejudiced or polarizing speech.

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   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.

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   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.