Polarization
Is polarization getting worse? Is the Filter bubble a contributing factor to worsening polarization? Are social media harmful?
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
- For Trump’s Backers in Congress, ‘Devil Terms’ Help Rally Voters
Based on network structure
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
Affective polarization
Studies from Kristina Lerman‘s group: - Feldman2023affective - Nettasinghe2024dynamics
Modeling 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
Sabin Miller2020when studies a model that has both local attraction and distal-repulsion. Casas2022exposure argues that the distal-repulsion or “boomerang effects” is scarce.
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
Hartman2022interventions reviews interventions to reduce partisan animosity.