Pop-up political advocacy communities on reddit.com: SandersFor Presi dent and The Donald
Pop-up political advocacy communities on reddit.com: SandersFor Presi dent and The Donald
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DOI：
10.1007/s00146-017-0712-9
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发表时间：
2018-02-01
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3
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Mills, Richard A.
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作者：
Mills, Richard A.
本文探讨了在2016年美国总统竞选活动中分别支持伯尼·桑德斯和唐纳德·特朗普的两个Reddit社区。这篇论文的大部分内容都致力于解释reddit是如何运作的，描述了相关的reddit子社区的行为，然后询问这些社区是否表现出了集体智慧。Subreddit社区提交内容并进行投票，通过投票，他们共同决定哪些内容将被广播到他们的社区。在选举中迅速形成的支持候选人的大型reddit子社区以前从未在reddit上被观察到这些为考虑reddit子社区是否表现出集体智慧提供了一个有趣的背景。投票是每个subreddit上发生的事情的关键决定因素，并且它是匿名进行的，因此，不可能了解每个人在subreddit运作中扮演的角色。这些subreddit社区的行为只能被理解为提交，评论，投票和审核参与者的集体。这些群体是否表现得聪明，只是一个如何定义聪明的问题，但很明显，他们可以有效地追求某些目标。这些群体在Reddit上相遇，有时甚至相互对立。特别是特朗普支持者社区与网站上其他一些知名社区以及平台管理员发生冲突。
This paper explores two reddit communities that supported Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, respectively, in the run up to the 2016 US Presidential election campaign. Much of the paper is dedicated to explaining how reddit functions, describing the behaviour of the subreddit communities in question and then asking whether these demonstrated collective intelligence. Subreddit communities submit and vote on content, through their votes they make collective decisions about which content will be broadcast to their community. Large subreddit communities that formed rapidly to support a candidate in an election have not previously been observed on reddit-these offered an interesting context for the consideration of whether sub-reddit communities demonstrate collective intelligence. Voting is a key determinant of what happens on each subreddit and it is conducted anonymously, it is, therefore, not possible to understand the role(s) that every individual plays in the functioning of the subreddit. The behaviour of these subreddit communities can only be understood as a collective of submitting, commenting, voting and moderating participants. Whether these collectives behave intelligently is a matter of how one defines intelligence-but it is clear that they can be effective in pursuing certain ends. These collectives encounter and sometimes oppose each other on reddit. The community of Trump supporters in particular were in conflict with a number of other high-profile communities on the site, and also the platform's administrators.