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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.
- The role of (social) media in political polarization: a ...
Social Media Use and Polarization. A majority of papers...
- Social Media Use and Political Engagement in Polarized Times ...
Political Polarization and Democratic Outcomes. In recent...
- The role of (social) media in political polarization: a ...
Sep 21, 2021 · Social Media Use and Polarization. A majority of papers focused on the effects of selectively exposing oneself to social media content on political polarization. These studies showed that social media use predicted both ideological and affective polarization (Cho et al., Citation 2018).
- Emily Kubin, Emily Kubin, Christian von Sikorski
- 2021
May 29, 2023 · Social media could well have a number of negative consequences, like the erosion of institutional trust and democratic satisfaction, but it is not likely a major player in Canadian polarization as I have described here.
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.
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.
Mar 29, 2024 · The estimated effect suggests that at the mean value of internet penetration, social media increases electoral democracy by 0.067, liberal democracy by 0.055, participatory democracy by 0.046, deliberative democracy by 0.052, and egalitarian democracy by 0.037.
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Political Polarization and Democratic Outcomes. In recent years, scholars and commentators have framed political polarization as a direct threat to democracy (Gidron et al., 2020), and one of its manifestations is the shaping of political communications on social media (Kreiss & McGregor, 2023).
