Explaining the emergence of political fragmentation on social media: the role of ideology and extremism
This paper is a systematic large scale study of the reasons driving political fragmentation on social media. Making use of a comparative dataset of the Twitter discussion activities of 115 political groups in 26 countries, it shows that groups which are further apart in ideological terms interact le...
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Oxford University Press
2018
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