Heating up the debate? Measuring fragmentation and polarisation in a German climate change hyperlink network
Heating up the debate? Measuring fragmentation and polarisation in a German climate change hyperlink network
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DOI：
10.1016/j.socnet.2017.10.002
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发表时间：
2018-07-01
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3.1
通讯作者：
Haussler, Thomas
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作者：
Haussler, Thomas
到目前为止，对互联网两极分化的研究主要集中在有争议的问题上，并产生了相互矛盾的结果。转移到一个无争议的设置的重点，本文结合社区检测经纪分析和指数随机图模型，以评估在不同层次的德国超链接网络对气候变化的极化程度。虽然同质性占适度的两极分化在网络的顶层，社区显示，其他因素证明更决定性的塑造其结构和文章，从而有助于更精细的理解在线两极分化的性质。(C)2017爱思唯尔B.V.保留所有权利。
Research into polarisation on the internet has so far primarily focused on contentious issues and yielded contradictory results. Shifting the focus to a non-contentious setting, this article combines community detection with brokerage analysis and exponential random graph models to assess the degree of polarisation at different levels of a German hyperlink network on climate change. Although homophily accounts for a moderate degree of polarisation at the top level of the network, the communities reveal that other factors prove more decisive in shaping its structure and the article thus contributes to a more refined understanding of the nature of online polarisation. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.