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- In the countries with high affective polarization, social media use increased democratic engagement (i.e. participation and voting) and decreased satisfaction with democracy (i.e. political satisfaction and perceived quality of democracy), which may have implications for democratic erosion and backsliding.
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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 ...
Some suggest social media (Valenzuela et al., Citation 2019)...
- The role of (social) media in political polarization: a ...
Sep 21, 2021 · Some suggest social media (Valenzuela et al., Citation 2019) and traditional media (Udani et al., Citation 2018) have no effect on political polarization. While others suggest in certain circumstances, political information can actually have a depolarizing effect on viewers (Beam et al., Citation 2018 ; Kubin et al., Citation 2021 ; Wojcieszak ...
- 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.
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.
Jun 6, 2024 · The results show that political polarization is positively related to social media censorship and false information. The connection between two waves of polarization is weakened by social media adoption but strengthened by social media organization.
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.’
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).
