¿Es válido atribuir la polarización política a la comunicaci...

¿Es válido atribuir la polarización política a la comunicación digital? Sobre burbujas, plataformas y polarización afectiva

Examines the complex relationship between digital communication and contemporary political polarization, highlighting the interplay of media, elite decisions, and socio-political factors rather than attributing polarization solely to digital influences.

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Discursive rationality is today under threat from affective communication. We allow ourselves to be easily affected by fast sequences of information. It is quicker to appeal to affect than to rationality. In affective communication, it is not the better argument but the most exciting information that prevails. Fake news is more interesting than fac
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from Infocracy by Daniel Steuer
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As a result, the feedback you do receive in digital conversations is more polarized, because the only people who will engage are those who are willing to take that extra step and bear that cost of wading into a messy conversation.
from The Silence Is Deafening | devonzuegel.com by Devon Zuegel
sari added
Rampant incivility, participation inequality, polarization, propaganda, distortion and distrust
from Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse by Marie K. Shanahan
... another reason for the crisis of community, which is a crisis of democracy, is digitalization. Digital communication redirects the flows of communication. Information is spread without forming a public sphere. It is produced in private spaces and distributed to private spaces. The web does not create a public. This has highly deleter... See more
from All That Is Solid Melts Into Information by Noema
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The implication of these studies is that this so-called “selective exposure bias” may be pushing us into more polarised positions.
from This cognitive bias can push people into more extreme ideological positions | BPS
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from Infocracy by Daniel Steuer

from The Silence Is Deafening | devonzuegel.com by Devon Zuegel

from Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse by Marie K. Shanahan

from All That Is Solid Melts Into Information by Noema

from This cognitive bias can push people into more extreme ideological positions | BPS