The new high-choice media environment has raised concerns that users of social
networking sites primarily select political information that supports their political opinions …

To further dialogue between theory and research on deliberative democracy, I advocate
abandoning tests of deliberative theory per se and instead developing “middle-range” …

Politics has in recent decades entered an era of intense polarization. Explanations have
implicated digital media, with the so-called echo chamber remaining a dominant causal …

Exposure to news, opinion, and civic information increasingly occurs through social media.
How do these online networks influence exposure to perspectives that cut across ideological …

When defined in terms of social identity and affect toward copartisans and opposing
partisans, the polarization of the American electorate has dramatically increased. We …

We live in an age of political polarization. As political beliefs on the left and the right have
been pulled closer to the extremes, so have our social environments: we seldom interact …

This study investigates two competing opinions regarding the role of social media platforms
in partisan polarization. The “echo chambers” view focuses on the highly fragmented …

Employing a national probability survey in 2012, this study tests relationships between
social media, social network service (SNS) network heterogeneity, and opinion polarization …

Citizens increasingly rely on social media to consume and disseminate news and
information about politics, but the factors that drive political information sharing on these …

Much of the literature on polarization and selective exposure presumes that the internet
exacerbates the fragmentation of the media and the citizenry. Yet this ignores how the …