2022
DOI: 10.25082/swsw.2022.02.003
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Studying opinion polarization on social media

Abstract: Opinion polarization on social media raises a lot of concerns today. In this study, the author provides a systematic review of publications about the issues since 2013 to show the achievements in the existing research on the topic, to sort out the relevant knowledge, and to provide some inspirations for future research in this area. This paper finds that opinion polarization on social media is initiated by three patterns of factors: increasing the homophily in discussions, increasing conflict in social media d… Show more

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“…Such a concentrated talent pool and infrastructure is very much prone to foreign attacks at the time of war and a simple protest can lead to the halting of all the work. As social media algorithms are gaining hold on the people's choices more and more [9], foreign interference can be a major threat. Weather distortions, Electricity Blackouts and Water shortages in the area can cause severe damages, if they occur regularly they can cause huge economic losses and can even outweigh such an India.…”
Section: Disadvantagesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such a concentrated talent pool and infrastructure is very much prone to foreign attacks at the time of war and a simple protest can lead to the halting of all the work. As social media algorithms are gaining hold on the people's choices more and more [9], foreign interference can be a major threat. Weather distortions, Electricity Blackouts and Water shortages in the area can cause severe damages, if they occur regularly they can cause huge economic losses and can even outweigh such an India.…”
Section: Disadvantagesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Esta revisión se centra en encontrar las tendencias sobre la relación entre los medios de comunicación y la polarización afectiva. Si bien es cierto que se han realizado otras revisiones sistemáticas de la literatura sobre los medios y la polarización (por ejemplo, Arora et al, 2022;Jiang, 2022;Kubin & von Sikorski, 2021), hasta donde se ha podido saber, no se ha encontrado alguna que aborde la relación de los medios con su variante afectiva de manera específica, lo que permitiría profundizar en el estado de la cuestión más allá de los efectos sobre polarización ideológica, entre otros. La naturaleza de la polarización afectiva, que se diferencia de la ideológica por sus raíces en la teoría de la identidad social (Iyengar et al, 2019;Tajfel & Turner, 1979) exige un examen aparte en este aspecto.…”
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