Explaining the Emergence of Political Fragmentation on Social Media: The Role of Ideology and Extremism
Explaining the Emergence of Political Fragmentation on Social Media: The Role of Ideology and Extremism
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DOI：
10.1093/jcmc/zmx002
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
影响因子：
7.2
通讯作者：
Bright, Jonathan
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作者：
Bright, Jonathan
本文是对社交媒体上政治碎片化原因的系统性大规模研究。利用26个国家的115个政治团体的Twitter讨论活动的比较数据集，它表明，在意识形态方面相距较远的群体互动较少，而处于意识形态极端的群体特别可能具有较低的互动模式。事实上，处于左右分歧的中间派之间的交流比来自同一意识形态派别的中间派和极端分子之间的联系更有可能。根据研究结果，加强了关于在网上接触不同意识形态观点的理论。
This article is a systematic large-scale study of the reasons driving political fragmentation on social media. Making use of a comparative dataset of the Twitter discussion activities of 115 political groups in 26 countries, it shows that groups that are further apart in ideological terms interact less, and that groups that sit at the extremes of the ideological scale are particularly likely to have lower patterns of interaction. Indeed, exchanges between centrists who sit on different sides of the left-right divide are more likely than connections between centrists and extremists who are from the same ideological wing. In light of the results, theory about exposure to different ideological viewpoints online is enhanced.