The echo chamber is overstated: the moderating effect of political interest and diverse media
Elizabeth Dubois,Grant Blank +1 more
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In a high-choice media environment, there are fears that individuals will select media and content that reinforce their existing beliefs and lead to segregation based on interest and/or partisanshi as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
In a high-choice media environment, there are fears that individuals will select media and content that reinforce their existing beliefs and lead to segregation based on interest and/or partisanshiread more
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The Effects of Mass Communication
TL;DR: The record of that seminal conference on "Popular Culture and Personal Responsibility" which the National Union of Teachers organised five years ago was looked up, to see whether much progress has been made since.
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The echo chamber effect on social media
Matteo Cinelli,Gianmarco De Francisci Morales,Alessandro Galeazzi,Walter Quattrociocchi,Michele Starnini +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, a comparative analysis of more than 100 million pieces of content concerning several controversial topics (e.g., gun control, vaccination, abortion) from Gab, Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter was performed.
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A Decade of Research on Social Media and Journalism: Assumptions, Blind Spots, and a Way Forward
Seth C. Lewis,Logan Molyneux +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argues that the same scrutiny can be applied to the journalism studies field and its approaches to examining social media, arguing that the assumptions, biases, and blind spots that have crept into this line of research have been uncovered.
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Social Bots in Election Campaigns: Theoretical, Empirical, and Methodological Implications
Tobias R. Keller,Ulrike Klinger +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, social bots mimic and potentially manipulate humans and their behaviours in social networks and the public sphere might be especially vulnerable to their impacts, which is why we first discuss their impacts.
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Social Media, Echo Chambers, and Political Polarization
TL;DR: Benkler et al. as mentioned in this paper argue that the main characteristic of social networking sites is that they allow politically like-minded individuals to find one another, and that the outcome of this process is a society that is increasingly segregated along partisan lines, and where compromise becomes unlikely due to rising mistrust on public officials, media outlets, and ordinary citizens on the other side of the ideological spectrum.
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A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
TL;DR: Cognitive dissonance theory links actions and attitudes as discussed by the authors, which holds that dissonance is experienced whenever one cognition that a person holds follows from the opposite of at least one other cognition that the person holds.
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Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks
TL;DR: The homophily principle as mentioned in this paper states that similarity breeds connection, and that people's personal networks are homogeneous with regard to many sociodemographic, behavioral, and intrapersonal characteristics.
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The political blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. election: divided they blog
Lada A. Adamic,Natalie S. Glance +1 more
TL;DR: Differences in the behavior of liberal and conservative blogs are found, with conservative blogs linking to each other more frequently and in a denser pattern.
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The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You
TL;DR: Pariser et al. as discussed by the authors described the filter bubble as a "unique, personal universe of information created just for you by this array of personalizing filters" and pointed out the problem of not having any sense of what is being edited out or why it is being censored.
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Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook
TL;DR: Examination of the news that millions of Facebook users' peers shared, what information these users were presented with, and what they ultimately consumed found that friends shared substantially less cross-cutting news from sources aligned with an opposing ideology.