Social media symbiosis
Understanding the dynamics of online political persuasion in social media ecologies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7477939 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beatriz Jordá (0000-0003-2576-2426, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, corresponding author), Manuel Goyanes (0000-0001-8329-0610, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Porismita Borah (0000-0002-1140-4233, Washington State University), Homero Gil De Zúñiga (0000-0002-4187-3604, Universidad de Salamanca) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 2345-2363 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14648849241272164 |
| OpenAlex | W4401916161 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 37 |
Research has noted that political content on social media, both accurate and fake, may lead users to reconsider their political opinions and be persuaded. This study contributes to this topic by examining how political attitude change in social media unfolds according to users’ perceptions. Our findings, based on in-depth interviews with 30 Spanish social media users, show how the centrality of social media in citizens’ everyday life nudges them into a persuasive relationship in these ecologies. We conceptualize this dynamic relationship as social media symbiosis , an analogy that draws on the biological concept of symbiosis, and that explains the characteristics of perceived online persuasion: (1) the primacy of social media persuasion over other information sources, (2) its gradual and evolutionary nature, and (3) the persuasive relationships in which users may engage: mutualism, in which both sender and receiver reciprocally benefit and persuade each other; and parasitism, in which fake news creators harmfully persuade receivers while benefitting. Our study contributes to extant literature by theorizing about the persuasive relationship in which users perceive to engage in social media, and the rationales that facilitate it
Dynamics (music · Persuasion · Political science · Politics · Social dynamics · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Media Studies and Communication · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
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Social Media Use in Organizations
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Confusing Effects of Fake News on Clarity of Political Information in the Social Media Environment
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The Role of Engagement in Learning From Active and Incidental News Exposure on Social Media
Political persuasion on social media
Trust-oriented affordances
Citizen (dis)engagement on social media
News Recommendations from Social Media Opinion Leaders
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How Young Users Deal With Multiple Platforms
Is There Real Opinion Change
Influencers as ideological intermediaries
Pathways to Political Persuasion
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Personalization, social media, and voting
Diffusion of disinformation
Out-of-Place Content
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |