Social media supporting political deliberation across multiple public spheres: towards depolarization
Social media supporting political deliberation across multiple public spheres: towards depolarization
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社交媒体支持多个公共领域的政治审议：走向去极化
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2014
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Misa Maruyama
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Bryan C. Semaan;Scott P. Robertson;Sara K. Douglas;Misa Maruyama
本文报告了21名美国公民对社交媒体用于政治讨论的定性研究。在观察人们在政治和非政治空间中通过多种社交媒体工具进行的互动时，我们发现社交媒体支持协商民主的互动维度--与媒体的互动和人与人之间的互动。人们使用多种工具，通过这些工具，他们偶然接触到不同的政治信息，构建不同的信息源，传播不同的信息，并与不同的受众进行尊重和理性的政治讨论。当人们的公民机构在使用某种工具时受到限制时，他们通常会采用或改用能够负担得起他们试图实现的目标的替代媒体。与两极分化的观点相反，我们发现人们故意寻求不同的信息和讨论者。一些人由于他们在网上公共领域的互动而改变了他们的观点。
This paper reports on a qualitative study of social media use for political deliberation by 21 U.S. citizens. In observing people's interactions in the "sprawling public sphere" across multiple social media tools in both political and non-political spaces, we found that social media supported the interactional dimensions of deliberative democracy--the interaction with media and the interaction between people. People used multiple tools through which they: were serendipitously exposed to diverse political information, constructed diverse information feeds, disseminated diverse information, and engaged in respectful and reasoned political discussions with diverse audiences. When people's civic agency was inhibited when using a tool, they often adopted, or switched to, alternative media that could afford what they were trying to achieve. Contrary to the polarization perspective, we find that people were purposefully seeking diverse information and discussants. Some individuals altered their views as a result of the interactions they were having in the online public sphere.