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Title: | The Role of Media in Political Polarization| When We Have to Get Along: Depolarizing Impacts of Cross-Cutting Social Media |
Other Titles: | International Journal of Communication |
Authors: | Stude, Daniel J. Knobloch-Westerwick, Silvia |
Keywords: | social media climate |
Issue Date: | 2023 |
Publisher: | International Journal of Communication |
Citation: | Sude, D., and Knobloch-Westerwick, S. (2023). The Role of Media in Political Polarization| When We Have to Get Along: Depolarizing Impacts of Cross-Cutting Social Media. International Journal Of Communication, 17, 23. Retrieved from https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19019/4296 |
Abstract: | Drawing upon spiral of silence theory and Brewer’s extension of social identity theory, an online experiment with adult Republican and Democrat participants (N = 407) found that the less favorable a national opinion climate Americans perceived, the warmer they felt toward out-group partisans. Addressing media effects, when these partisans browsed an online forum, in which they were in the minority (versus the majority), they tended to perceive a less favorable national opinion climate and in turn to report warmer attitudes toward out-group partisans, as observed in an indirect effects model examining change in the key variables. To ensure external validity, the forum used stimuli harvested from a complete corpus of Reddit posts collected between 2016 and 2018, with a sampling technique incorporating latent space modeling. |
URI: | https://repositorio.consejodecomunicacion.gob.ec//handle/CONSEJO_REP/7364 |
ISSN: | 1932-8036 |
Appears in Collections: | Documentos internacionales sobre libertad de expresión y derechos conexos |
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