Echo Chambers and Online Radicalism: Assessing the Internet's Complicity in Violent Extremism

O’Hara, Kieron; Stevens, David

doi:10.1002/poi3.88

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“…Second, from the standpoint of citizens, social media decreases the cost to individuals of participating in political activities and allows individuals to participate in a shared movement without necessarily being in the same location or acting simultaneously (Earl & Kimport, ). Third, social media technologies enable people to self‐select the type of information they want to consume, which has the potential to ideologically polarize information consumption (Bennett & Iyengar, ; Garcia, Abisheva, Schweighofer, Serdult, & Schweitzer, ; Gruzd & Roy, ; Hong, ; O'Hara & Stevens, ; Sunstein, ). Taken together, although social media has the potential to transform the power structure of political voices, very few researchers have provided empirical evidence related to this effect.…”

Section: Social Media and Digital Democracymentioning

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The Unheavenly Chorus: Political Voices of Organized Interests on Social Media

Hong¹,

Nadler²

2015

Policy &Amp; Internet

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This study provides a descriptive look at the use of social media and the inequality of political voices in the context of political interest organizations. It seeks to answer the question of whether the Internet and social media allow those who were previously outside the power mainstream with respect to the broader democratic discourse to raise their voices and be heard. Overall, we find that social media does not diminish the concentration of political voices within the discourse. Rather, the evidence suggests that political voices are more concentrated when a voice is measured by the size of the online network using social media than when measured using traditional indicators, such as the number of lobbyists. Furthermore, a very small number of large organizations with large online networks (as measured by Twitter followers) are driving this high concentration of online political voices.

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Section: Social Media and Digital Democracymentioning

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The Unheavenly Chorus: Political Voices of Organized Interests on Social Media

Hong¹,

Nadler²

2015

Policy &Amp; Internet

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“…Bahkan tak jarang pesan yang sampai dari komunikator hanya berupa audio, seperti nada, volume, gerakan, hanya sedikit informasi yang didapat dari ekspresi wajah serta karakteristik komunikator seperti usia, ukuran, jenis kelamin, ras / etnis, atau stigma fisik. (O'Hara dan Stevens, 2004 (Maxwell, 2016). Emosi negatif dan kognisi yang diaktifkan oleh ancaman antar kelompok dapat memicu respons perilaku negatif seperti agresi dan perilaku membenci.…”

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PRASANGKA DAN UJARAN KEBENCIAN SIBER: PERAN POLA KOMUNIKASI DARING DAN ALGORITMA MEDIA SOSIAL (Ruang Gema dan Gelembung Informasi)

Mardianto¹

2019

Preprint

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This article discusses the cyberhate on social media that are influenced by prejudice,characteristics of online communication and cyber propaganda. This article uses a literature reviewapproach by looking for references to theories that are relevant to the cases and problems of cyberbehavior, especially speech hate. The results of the analysis of theoretical studies and the results ofthe latest research in scientific journals state that group prejudice and hate speech behavior onsocial media is the results of exposure to information that is both provocative and repetitive orecho chamber effect in each filter bubble that he obtained during surfing in cyberspace. In addition,it is also caused by the limitations of communication patterns on social media which are only onedirection or perspective and are self-interest.

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“…Since polarization is considered harmful for society, research in HCI and related disciplines has examined how to mitigate it through design endeavors [52,40,42,41]. While there is research indicating that echo chambers are not always a result of underlying technology design decisions or algorithmic bias but rather on group processes [46,24,11], the work has been focused on "nudging" the users and applying behavioral change techniques.…”

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Social Media Is Polarized, Social Media Is Polarized

Nelimarkka

Laaksonen

Semaan

2018

Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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Social media platforms have often been described as online spaces supporting political discourse. However, online discussions are often polarized; people tend to commune with those who are ideologically similar to them. The HCI response to this phenomenon has been to purposefully expose people to diverse viewpoints. This common design agenda is supported through analysis of link sharing, yet little attention has been paid to how users discuss these links. Therefore, the common design agenda may not mitigate polarization. We study the emergent discourse in 10 Finnish migration-related Facebook groups and examine how the same links are shared and discussed across anti-and pro-migration camps. Qualitative analysis of the posts and comments revealed that shared media links do not bridge polarized groups with regard to worldviews and opinions. We then demonstrate alternative design opportunities to resolve this issue and begin to develop a new design agenda to mitigate polarization.

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Echo Chambers and Online Radicalism: Assessing the Internet's Complicity in Violent Extremism

Cited by 91 publications

References 58 publications

The Unheavenly Chorus: Political Voices of Organized Interests on Social Media

The Unheavenly Chorus: Political Voices of Organized Interests on Social Media

PRASANGKA DAN UJARAN KEBENCIAN SIBER: PERAN POLA KOMUNIKASI DARING DAN ALGORITMA MEDIA SOSIAL (Ruang Gema dan Gelembung Informasi)

Social Media Is Polarized, Social Media Is Polarized

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