« Republic 2.0 », de Cass Sunstein (2007), Princeton University Press

Gossart, Cédric

doi:10.4000/terminal.1832

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“…Nonetheless, while the issue requires more scrutiny than can be provided here, when combined with the existence of online 'filter bubbles', 'echo chambers' and 'information cocoons' (McIntyre, 2018), the extent of ideological polarization within the Canadian Twittersphere implies that, rather than encouraging cross-talk and reducing social distance, visible digital spaces are likely to promote patterns of affiliation that connect the like-minded, encourage homophily and reinforce allegiances and proclivities, further entrenching society's 'moral barricades' (Cohen, 2011;Sunstein, 2018). Thus, while they may impede hegemonic reactions, digital platforms are also likely to increase social friction and conflict, producing societies that are more tribal and divided.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 90%

Social media, migration and the platformization of moral panic: Evidence from Canada

Walsh

Hill

2022

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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As a contentious issue affecting the character, boundaries and future of social order, migration represents a recurrent source of moral panic. While analysts have considered conventional outlets’ role in triggering collective alarm, less is known about social media’s effects on migration’s construction as a social problem. Working with an original dataset of tweets from the 2019 Canadian election, a period of heightened concern and outcry for significant portions of the electorate, this paper employs content analytic methods to assess migration’s online demonization and interrogate the patterns of framing, participation and engagement brought within the issue’s orbit. Alongside documenting significant disquiet and antipathy, its findings suggest that Twitter is transforming panic production and facilitating forms of reaction involving mass-participation and collaboration; interference from automated ‘bots’ and considerable dispute, dissent and negotiation. Based on these results, the sensitizing concept of platformed panics is proposed to capture how social media’s technical affordances, design and appropriation align to promote moral panics that are networked, algorithmic and contested.

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Social media, migration and the platformization of moral panic: Evidence from Canada

Walsh

Hill

2022

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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“…Such reactive asymmetry is only possible when different parts of the media system are visible and attentive to each other (Webster 2014). Hashtags, trending topics, and viral posts enable social media users, journalists, politicians, activists and ordinary people alike to find, amplify, and respond to each other (Sunstein 2018;Yang and Peng 2020;Zhang et al 2018). Media outlets also monitor each other and their audience through algorithmic tracking and digital footprint analysis (Webster 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Reactive and Asymmetric Communication Flows: Social Media Discourse and Partisan News Framing in the Wake of Mass Shootings

Zhang

Shah

Pevehouse

et al. 2022

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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Marked by both deep interconnectedness and polarization, the contemporary media system in the United States features news outlets and social media that are bound together, yet deeply divided along partisan lines. This article formally analyzes communication flows surrounding mass shootings in the hybrid and polarized U.S. media system. We begin by integrating media system literature with agenda setting and news framing theories and then conduct automated text analysis and time series modeling. After accounting for exogenous event characteristics, results show that (a) sympathy and gun control discourses on Twitter preceded news framing of gun policy more than the other way around, and (b) conservatives on Twitter and conservative media reacted to progressive discourse on Twitter, without their progressive counterparts exhibiting a similar reactiveness. Such results shed light on the influence of social media on political communication flows and confirm an asymmetry in the ways partisan media ecosystems respond to social events.

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“…The collapse of traditional media leaves readers facing huge volumes of information and news outlets that no longer perform a "gatekeeper" role, filtering for reliability and accuracy (Kavanaugh and Rich 2018;McIntyre 2018). Other common explanations point to political polarization and online "echo chambers" that reinforce cognitive biases (Kavanaugh and Rich 2018; Kennedy and Tyson 2023;Pew 2020;Sunstein 2017). Populism also features prominently in the literature on the decline of trust (Citrin and Stoker 2018).…”

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Varieties of Mistrust and American Epistemic Fragility

LeVan,

Assenov,

Tower

et al. 2024

Political Research Quarterly

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Mistrust in both government and scientific authority has grown. Yet the relationship between these trends remains underappreciated, even though such mistrust shaped behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic and deserves much blame for America’s troubles with truth. Using original data from 3,000 American counties and at different points of time during the pandemic, we identify social and political conditions that increase different types of “vertical” mistrust. We use tax and Census data to proxy for political trust, and mask wearing and vaccination variables to capture trust in scientific authority. Statistical tests demonstrate a robust relationship between partisanship and both types of trust, confirming national polls and lending support to the “asymmetry hypothesis.” Tests also indicate that psychological distress and socioeconomic vulnerability contribute to mistrust, though partisanship has a powerful mediation effect. Controls reveal high levels of mistrust among evangelicals, rural residents, and some minorities while other minorities are strikingly trusting. The results hold under alternative statistical specifications. We call for more research exploring the behavioral expressions of vertical mistrust, including how it manifests collectively in communities.

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« Republic 2.0 », de Cass Sunstein (2007), Princeton University Press

Cited by 15 publications

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Social media, migration and the platformization of moral panic: Evidence from Canada

Social media, migration and the platformization of moral panic: Evidence from Canada

Reactive and Asymmetric Communication Flows: Social Media Discourse and Partisan News Framing in the Wake of Mass Shootings

Varieties of Mistrust and American Epistemic Fragility

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