2017 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI) 2017
DOI: 10.1109/iri.2017.73
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Measuring Polarization in Twitter Enabled in Online Political Conversation: The Case of 2016 US Presidential Election

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“…Notably, our study is among the first to examine whether Twitter users' network audience size is related to the content of their tweets, expecially in the COVID-19 context. Building on research on social media network and information flow (Boutyline & Willer, 2017;Primario et al, 2017), we found that users with large audience size talked more favorably toward COVID-19 vaccine, possibly due to the heterogeneity of their audience. On the contrary, users with a large audience are less likely to mention specific vaccination concerns-side effects, medical mistrust, and conspiracy theories-which, again, might be due to consideration of avoiding alienating some group of followers or creasing combative discourses (Leader et al, 2021), as well as normative pressure due to having large audience.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 88%
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“…Notably, our study is among the first to examine whether Twitter users' network audience size is related to the content of their tweets, expecially in the COVID-19 context. Building on research on social media network and information flow (Boutyline & Willer, 2017;Primario et al, 2017), we found that users with large audience size talked more favorably toward COVID-19 vaccine, possibly due to the heterogeneity of their audience. On the contrary, users with a large audience are less likely to mention specific vaccination concerns-side effects, medical mistrust, and conspiracy theories-which, again, might be due to consideration of avoiding alienating some group of followers or creasing combative discourses (Leader et al, 2021), as well as normative pressure due to having large audience.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 88%
“…In addition, we used a cut-off number to categorize user status. Although it is an established method in social media studies (e.g., Primario et al, 2017), future studies can leverage other measures. Finally, our study assessed public sentiment regarding COVID-19 vaccination by analyzing Twitter content from the first 4 months of pandemic.…”
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“…While direct contact with ideologically opposed others in real life can serve to reduce ( Hodson, 2011 ) or increase polarization ( Paluck, 2010 ), as stated earlier, the research into online interaction suggests a starker view: online interactions with others seem to largely galvanize more extreme views, possibly due to a stronger awareness of political or ideologically driven identities in social media interactions ( Settle, 2018 ). For example, one Twitter based study showed that during the 2016 presidential debates, polarization increased dramatically afterward as a result of exposure to intergroup contact ( Primario et al, 2017 ). Another Twitter-based experiment found that Republicans ( N = 751) expressed more conservative views after being paid to follow a left-leaning Twitter bot compared to a control group, presenting experimental evidence that exposure to intergroup views increases polarization ( Bail et al, 2018 ).…”
Section: The Role Of Online Media In the Polarization Of Ideologically Opposed Campsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Un tema importante en la agenda académica sobre el funcionamiento de la esfera pública digital es la emergencia de conflictos entre los perfiles de usuarios, llevando a una polarización entre posicionamientos políticos ideológicos (Liu y Weber, 2014). La polarización entre los usuarios puede reflejar semejanzas de debates políticos electorales entre los partidarios de candidatos en disputas electorales (Primario et al, 2017), ampliando y dinamizando la participación política con la entrada de nuevos agentes y fuentes de información, así como también puede intensificar conflictos con la difusión de desinformación, poniendo en riesgo el funcionamiento de la democracia (Tucker et al, 2018).…”
Section: Redes Sociales Y Esfera Pública Digitalunclassified