This article explores Facebook unfriending during the Israel–Gaza conflict of 2014. We
suggest that politically motivated unfriending is a new kind of political gesture. We present …

This article explores the use of irony for boundary work in social media. It suggests that the
combination of the polysemy inherent to ironic humor and new decontextualized digital …

Political disagreements in social media can result in removing (ie,“unfriending”) a person
from one's online network. Given that such actions could lead to the (ideological) …

This article explores the meaning of political unfriending and proposes the concept of the
personal public sphere. Interviews with Jewish Israeli Facebook users who unfriended …

Sanctions play an essential role in enforcing and sustaining social norms. On social
networking sites (SNS), sanctions allow individuals to shape community norms on …

Research has documented that social media allow individuals to encounter political
disagreement, potentially fostering deliberation in democratic systems. Another strand of …

This article explores the Facebook unfriending of users from a majority group by members of
a minority group, focusing on Palestinian and Jewish citizens of Israel. Indeed, this is the first …

It is a 'truth universally acknowledged'that people prefer to minimize encounters with
information they disagree with and ignore it where they find it. Algorithms purportedly …

This study examines the phenomena of political unfriending and content removal on social
media in three Western democracies—France, the United Kingdom, and the United States …

It has been argued that by allowing users to unfriend, unfollow, and block political and
cultural 'others,'Facebook facilitates the discouragement of dialog between those holding …