Polarization

Is polarization getting worse? Is the Filter bubble a contributing factor to worsening polarization?

Measuring polarization

• Political polarization on twitter.
• Users Polarization on Facebook and Youtube
• Bakshy2015: Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook
• Quantifying social organization and political polarization in online platforms

Based on network structure

• A Measure of Polarization on Social Media Networks Based on Community Boundaries

Inferring political leaning

• Predicting the political alignment of twitter users
• Quantifying Political Leaning from Tweets and Retweets
• Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda
• Filter bubble, echo chambers, and online news consumption
• What Drives Media Slant? Evidence From U.S. Daily Newspapers

Climate change

• Falkenberg2021growing

Modeling polarization

• Biased assimilation, homophily, and the dynamics of polarization

It shows that DeGroot’s model (averaging neighbors) is not polarizing and suggests a model with biased assimilation.

• Dynamics of Political Polarization
• Why more contact may increase cultural polarization
• Modeling Polarization Dynamics in Online Communities
• Tokita2021polarized
• Macy2021polarization

Reducing polarization

• Interian2020reducing: Reducing Network Polarization by Edge Additions
• Ruggeri2021general
• Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes
• Balietti2021reducing - Effects of exposure to similar people with differing political views