Political Polarisation on Social Media: Competing Understandings of Democracy in Turkey
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DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2023.2200901
Abstract: ABSTRACT Heightened political polarisation threatens democratic stability. While prior studies find polarisation in competing groups’ deployment of different terminologies to describe the same topic, we emphasise that it can also be evident in groups’ attachment… read more here.
Keywords: polarisation; social media; democracy; political polarisation ... See more keywords
The antecedents and consequences of intergroup affective polarisation on social media
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DOI: 10.1111/isj.12419
Abstract: Social media platforms enable like‐minded users to form online groups, interact and thereby contribute to ideological polarisation. However, online groups also polarise along a continuum of liking or affect for their group compared to other… read more here.
Keywords: group identification; polarisation; social media; affective polarisation ... See more keywords