Divide in Ferguson: Social Media, Social Context, and Division
We examine the patterns of social polarization, with the case of Michael Brown shooting as an empirical basis for discussing the role of social media in promoting polarized viewpoints. In doing so, we test a model that synthesizes the interplay between text polarity in Twitter and four attributes of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2018-07-01
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| Series: | Social Media + Society |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118789630 |