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Political Disagreement on Social Media: Exposure, Experience, and Effects
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Political Disagreement on Social Media: Exposure, Experience, and Effects
Yazar:
Barnidge, Matthew H., author.
ISBN:
9780438029231
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1 electronic resource (158 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Hernando Rojas Committee members: Katherine J. Cramer; Albert C. Gunther; Dhavan V. Shah; Michael A. Xenos.
Özet:
This dissertation is a study of political disagreement and social media. Prior research on this topic has focused on exposure to disagreement, but by drawing from both classic social-psychological literature and newer ideas about online social information processing, novel hypotheses of the effects of experiencing disagreement on social media are developed. It is predicted that even though users are more likely to "write off" the disagreement they encounter on social media about issues they perceive as irrelevant to their political identities, these same users actually end up experiencing more relevant political disagreement overall on social media than they do in face-to-face settings. Finally, it is hypothesized that relevant disagreement will produce uncertainty about political choices and preferences. These claims are tested with a combination of survey, quasi-experimental, and experimental methods on a representative sample of adults in the United States (N = 649). Results strongly support the general claims of the dissertation. Social media users are exposed to more relevant political disagreement than non-users, and they are exposed to it on social media more than in face-to-face settings. Furthermore, relevant disagreement generally produces more uncertainty about choices and preferences than irrelevant disagreement or agreement. The ways in which we encounter opinions on social media make us more likely to engage with disagreeable content posted by people we consider relevant to our own lives. This kind of exposure is fundamentally altering the process of how we engage with persuasive messages. Relevant disagreement creates opportunities for us to consider new and different ideas, and understanding social media in this way could have broad implications for how scholars talk about social phenomena related to the public sphere, as well as for journalists, activists, marketers, politicians, and others as they develop and promote messages to get communities talking about issues and ideas.
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School code: 0262
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