Digital Media, Political Polarization and Challenges to Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780367727345 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 118 str.

Maren Beaufort

Opis

This book explores the interplay between social media, political polarization, and civic engagement, focusing on countries with different media environments, cultural specifics, and levels of democratization. This book was first published as a special issue of Information, Communication & Society.

Spis treści

Introduction: Digital media, political polarization and challenges to democracy  1. Parametrizing Brexit: mapping Twitter political space to parliamentary constituencies  2. Facebook news and (de)polarization: reinforcing spirals in the 2016 US election  3. Do not blame it on the algorithm: an empirical assessment of multiple recommender systems and their impact on content diversity  4. Women politicians are more engaging: male versus female politicians’ ability to generate users’ engagement on social media during an election campaign  5. Commitment in the cloud? Social media participation in the sunflower movement  6. Counter-surveillance and alternative new media in Turkey

O autorze

Maren Beaufort is a scientist in the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Alpen-Adria-University, Austria. Her research interests include social media, political participation, media effects, media quality, and media literacy. She participates in the European Commission's ‘Media Pluralism Monitor’.