Trying not to fall out
The importance of non-political social ties in online political conversation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20508369 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Birchall (0000-0002-9712-7918, University of Leeds, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 963-979 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Information Communication & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-118X • E-ISSN: 1468-4462 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369118x.2018.1539758 |
| OpenAlex | W2898668667 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 46 |
This paper explores evidence from a large scale, mixed methods investigation into political conversation in various online niches, uncovering a model of deliberation in which shared cultural or social ties – non-political ties – seem to play an important role in holding a quorum together and encouraging exchange of diverse opinion without breakdown of the community. A shared sense of community identity is important within this model, but robust and stable individual identities – usually in the form of pseudonyms, but which sometimes translate to offline identities among sub-sections of the community – play an important role, too. These shared community spaces may offer democratic benefits by facilitating the testing of balkanised perspectives found within personalised digital media structures against diverse counter-perspectives
Aesthetics · Conversation · Deliberation · Interpersonal ties · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sense of community · Social media · Sociology · Communication · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
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