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Popping the bubble may not be enough: news media role in online political polarization
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2021
arXiv
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We collected politics-related tweets shared during the 2018 Brazilian presidential election and the 2019 Canadian federal election. ...
A way of reducing polarization would be by distributing cross-partisan news among individuals with distinct political orientations, i.e., "popping the bubbles". ...
Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Michelle Reddy for the ongoing discussions on the thematic of this study. ...
arXiv:2109.08906v1
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POLITICS OR PIETY? UNDERSTANDING PUBLIC PIETY AND POLITICAL EXPRESSIONS OF INDONESIAN MUSLIM IN ONLINE SPHERE
2019
Jurnal Sosiologi Reflektif
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Based on online observations combined with computational method, this paper tries to analyzes intriguing examples of how social media, the religious, and the everyday politics intersect, focusing on contemporary ...
expressions of piety through political attitudes in an online sphere. ...
Partisan alignments and political polarization online: a computational approach to understanding the French and US presidential election.In Proceedings of the 2 nd Workshop on Politics, Elections and Data ...
doi:10.14421/jsr.v13i12.1510
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Bots, elections, and social media: a brief overview
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2019
arXiv
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In this chapter, we summarize our findings of bot operations in the context of the 2016 and 2018 US Presidential and Midterm elections and the 2017 French Presidential election. ...
We studied the characteristics and activity of bots around major political events, including elections in various countries. ...
Acknowledgements The author is grateful to his collaborators and coauthors on the topics covered in this paper, in particular Adam Badawy, Alessandro Bessi, Ashok Deb, and Luca Luceri, who contributed ...
arXiv:1910.01720v1
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Social Media, Political Polarization, and Political Disinformation: A Review of the Scientific Literature
2018
Social Science Research Network
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on social media sites are frequently negative and uncivil, which contributes to the rise in affective polarization. ...
exposure, which has a range of positive effects on civic engagement, political moderation, and the quality of democratic politics, but also facilitates the spread of misinformation. (3) Political exchanges ...
to the 2017 French election, tweeting anti-Macron content. ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.3144139
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A Survey on Computational Politics
2020
IEEE Access
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Computational Politics is the study of computational methods to analyze and moderate users' behaviors related to political activities such as election campaign persuasion, political affiliation, and opinion ...
In this survey, we attempt to categorize main areas in computational politics and summarize the prominent studies in one place to better understand computational politics across different and multidimensional ...
This article also shows that these new variants can be used to find community membership for users. The study used a Twitter dataset from the French presidential elections in 2012. ...
doi:10.1109/access.2020.3034983
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A Survey on Computational Politics
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2020
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Computational Politics is the study of computational methods to analyze and moderate users' behaviors related to political activities such as election campaign persuasion, political affiliation, and opinion ...
In this survey, we attempt to categorize main areas in computational politics and summarize the prominent studies in one place to better understand computational politics across different and multidimensional ...
This paper also shows that these new variants can be used to find community membership for users. The study used a Twitter dataset from the French presidential elections in 2012. ...
arXiv:1908.06069v2
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Why Do States Intervene in the Elections of Others?
2019
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The United States is more likely to support the opposition, and the democratic process abroad, if a pro-US opposition is facing an anti-US government. ...
It is is more likely to support the government, and undermine the democratic process abroad, if a pro-US government is facing an anti-US opposition. ...
We evaluate in online Appendix F, Figure F .7 whether elections in which the incumbent's office is contested (a presidential election in a presidential system or any parliamentary election in a parliamentary ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.3435138
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Linguistic Implications of Political Tweets
2020
International Journal of English Linguistics
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Among the social media, Twitter is widely used by political leaders and the public to express opinions about various political issues. ...
A table categorising the methods used in the papers was useful to derive some conclusions. ...
This method was tested in the case of US Presidential election. The main task was to classify political election tweets into positive and negative. ...
doi:10.5539/ijel.v10n4p203
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Acting the Part
2018
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
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Addressing these questions contributes to a fuller account of the dynamics that emerge between information operations and those who use social media platforms for cooperative work such as grassroots political ...
We approach these questions from a CSCW perspective, adapting methods from the field of crisis informatics [2, 34, 42] to analyze both the large-scale interactions between these accounts and other members ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This research is a collaboration between the emCOMP lab and DataLab at the University of Washington and was supported by Office of Naval Research Grants N000141712980 and N000141812012 ...
doi:10.1145/3274289
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Sharp power in social media: Patterns from datasets across electoral campaigns
2021
Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies
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The large-scale cross-cross-sectional approach enabled a distinctive perspective on foreign political meddling in Twitter during the recent federal election campaign. ...
Using Christopher Walker's and Jessica Ludwig's 'sharp power' theoretical framework, and based on some preliminary findings from the May 2019 European Parliament election and the two 2019 rounds of elections ...
Using the sharp power theoretical framework and based on a trans-continental approach, with some preliminary findings from the May 2019 European Parliament election and the two 2019 rounds of elections ...
doi:10.30722/anzjes.vol11.iss3.15110
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Discovering political topics in Facebook discussion threads with graph contextualization
2018
Annals of Applied Statistics
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We propose a graph contextualization method, pairGraphText, to study political engagement on Facebook during the 2012 French presidential election. ...
More recent analyses of online political discourse are less optimistic, identifying instead vitriol, "trolling", and larger patterns of partisan polarization. ...
We thank Emma Krauska and Fan Chen from University of Wisconsin-Madison for their discussions to name pairGraphText. ...
doi:10.1214/18-aoas1191
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The Digital Transformation of News Media and the Rise of Disinformation and Fake News
2018
Social Science Research Network
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The impact of (fake) news on politics Concerns about fake news started in the wake of the US presidential elections in 2016 and were repeated during the French elections in 2017. ...
Prior (2013) examines if the emergence of more partisan media has contributed to political polarization. Evidence points to some polarization among the politically involved citizens in the US. ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.3164170
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Corporate Sociopolitical Activism and Firm Value
2020
Journal of Marketing
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However, many stakeholders now expect firms to demonstrate their values by expressing public support for or opposition to one side of a partisan sociopolitical issue, a phenomenon the authors call "corporate ...
Using signaling and screening theories, the authors analyze 293 CSA events initiated by 149 firms across 39 industries, and find that, on average, CSA elicits an adverse reaction from investors. ...
Acknowledgments The authors thank the participants of the 2019 Winter AMA Conference in Austin, the 2018 Theory þ Practice in Marketing Conference in Los Angeles, and the 2018 ISBM conference in Boston ...
doi:10.1177/0022242920937000
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Digital media and misinformation: An outlook on multidisciplinary strategies against manipulation
2021
Journal of Computational Social Science
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The discussion encompasses journalistic, educational, governmental and computational viewpoints on the topic. ...
AbstractThis review discusses the dynamic mechanisms of misinformation creation and spreading used in social networks. ...
Remarkable events are pointed out as the effects of group polarization, as the 2016 US presidential election, and 2016 EU referendum in the UK [54] . ...
doi:10.1007/s42001-021-00118-8
pmid:34075349
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Cycles in Politics: Wavelet Analysis of Political Time Series
2012
American Journal of Political Science
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In this paper, we present the tools of wavelet analysis and apply them to the study to two lingering puzzles in the political science literature: the existence to cycles in election returns in the United ...
M Ma ag ga al lh hã ãe es s M Ma ar ri ia a J Jo oa an na a S So oa ar re es s Abstract Spectral analysis and ARMA models have been the most common weapons of choice for the detection of cycles in political ...
Newer generations will be less connected to the existing party system and have weaker partisan loyalties, rendering them more available to be mobilized into new alignments. ...
doi:10.1111/j.1540-5907.2011.00566.x
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