The role of (social) media in political polarization: a systematic review

E Kubin, C Von Sikorski - Annals of the International …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Rising political polarization is, in part, attributed to the fragmentation of news media and the
spread of misinformation on social media. Previous reviews have yet to assess the full …

Echo chambers, filter bubbles, and polarisation: A literature review

This literature review examines social scientific evidence regarding the existence, causes,
and effects of online echo chambers in the context of concerns about digital platforms …

How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?

AM Guess, N Malhotra, J Pan, P Barberá, H Allcott… - Science, 2023 - science.org
We investigated the effects of Facebook's and Instagram's feed algorithms during the 2020
US election. We assigned a sample of consenting users to reverse-chronologically-ordered …

How digital media drive affective polarization through partisan sorting

P Törnberg - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Politics has in recent decades entered an era of intense polarization. Explanations have
implicated digital media, with the so-called echo chamber remaining a dominant causal …

Out of one, many: Using language models to simulate human samples

LP Argyle, EC Busby, N Fulda, JR Gubler… - Political …, 2023 - cambridge.org
We propose and explore the possibility that language models can be studied as effective
proxies for specific human subpopulations in social science research. Practical and …

Radical American partisanship: Mapping violent hostility, its causes, and the consequences for democracy

NP Kalmoe, L Mason - Radical American Partisanship, 2022 - degruyter.com
Political violence is rising in the United States, with Republicans and Democrats divided
along racial and ethnic lines that spurred massive bloodshed and democratic collapse …

[HTML][HTML] Affective polarization, local contexts and public opinion in America

JN Druckman, S Klar, Y Krupnikov… - Nature human …, 2021 - nature.com
Affective polarization has become a defining feature of twenty-first-century US politics, but
we do not know how it relates to citizens' policy opinions. Answering this question has …

[HTML][HTML] Cognitive–motivational mechanisms of political polarization in social-communicative contexts

JT Jost, DS Baldassarri, JN Druckman - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2022 - nature.com
Healthy democratic polities feature competing visions of a good society but also require
some level of cooperation and institutional trust. Democracy is at risk when citizens become …

[图书][B] American affective polarization in comparative perspective

N Gidron, J Adams, W Horne - 2020 - cambridge.org
American political observers express increasing concern about affective polarization, ie,
partisans' resentment toward political opponents. We advance debates about America's …

Partisan polarization is the primary psychological motivation behind political fake news sharing on Twitter

M Osmundsen, A Bor, PB Vahlstrup… - American Political …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The rise of “fake news” is a major concern in contemporary Western democracies. Yet,
research on the psychological motivations behind the spread of political fake news on social …