The impact of group polarization on the quality of online debate in social media: A systematic literature review

L Iandoli, S Primario, G Zollo - Technological Forecasting and Social …, 2021 - Elsevier
Social media are often accused of worsening the quality of online debate. In this paper, we
focus on group polarization in the context of social media-enabled interaction, a …

The prime psychological suspects of toxic political polarization

SL Moore-Berg, B Hameiri, E Bruneau - Current Opinion in Behavioral …, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Reviews the role of ideological differences and affective prejudice on
polarization.•Reviews the role of dehumanization of political partisans on toxic …

Quantifying partisan news diets in Web and TV audiences

D Muise, H Hosseinmardi, B Howland, M Mobius… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Partisan segregation within the news audience buffers many Americans from countervailing
political views, posing a risk to democracy. Empirical studies of the online media ecosystem …

Where 'fake news' flourishes: a comparison across four Western democracies

E Humprecht - Information, Communication & Society, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
How does the content of so-called 'fake news' differ across Western democracies? While
previous research on online disinformation has focused on the individual level, the current …

How polarized are online and offline news audiences? A comparative analysis of twelve countries

R Fletcher, A Cornia… - The international journal …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Polarization is a key area of interest for media and communication scholars. We develop a
way of measuring how polarized news audience behaviour is at the national level. Then, we …

How do they debunk “fake news”? A cross-national comparison of transparency in fact checks

E Humprecht - Digital journalism, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Fact-checking has gained importance in recent years, as so-called “fake news” has started
to spread on social media. News outlets and independent organizations engage in …

Understanding and combating misperceived polarization

J Lees, M Cikara - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
By many accounts politics is becoming more polarized, yielding dire consequences for
democracy and trust in government. Yet a growing body of research on so-called false …

Integrating truth bias and elaboration likelihood to understand how political polarisation impacts disinformation engagement on social media

S Miller, P Menard, D Bourrie… - Information Systems …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Political polarisation has become an increasingly alarming issue in society, exacerbated by
the widespread use of social media and the development of filter bubbles among social …

Information sharing and political polarisation on social media: The role of falsehood and partisanship

J Weismueller, RL Gruner, P Harrigan… - Information Systems …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We explore if misinformation from political elites (ie, members of the US Congress) and
extreme partisan information from media outlets generate greater engagement than …

The distorting prism of social media: How self-selection and exposure to incivility fuel online comment toxicity

JW Kim, A Guess, B Nyhan… - Journal of Communication, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Though prior studies have analyzed the textual characteristics of online comments about
politics, less is known about how selection into commenting behavior and exposure to other …