Frenemies - How Social Media Polarizes America

Social media is polarizing America: using Facebook causes Americans to negatively judge and stereotype those people with whom they disagree about politics.

List of contents

1. A fundamental change in political communication; 2. Facebook in context: theorizing interaction on twenty-first century social media; 3. The END framework of political interaction on social media; 4. How do END interactions on the news feed psychologically polarize users?; 5. In the eye of the beholder: politically informative news feed content; 6. Political inference from content on the news feed; 7. Biased inference from END interactions; 8. Judging the other side; 9. Erasing the coast of Bohemia in the era of social media; Appendix A; Appendix B.

About the author

Jaime E. Settle is an Associate Professor of Government, director of the SNaPP Lab, and co-director of the Social Science Research Methods Center at the College of William and Mary, Virginia. She studies the American public's day-to-day experience with politics. Settle has published in Nature, the American Journal of Political Science, and has been supported by the National Science Foundation.

Product details

• Authors: Jaime Settle, Jaime (College of William and Mary Settle, Jaime E Settle, Jaime E. Settle, Jaime E. (College of William and Mary Settle
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781108472531
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47253-1
• No. of pages: 330
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Political science & theory, Sociology: family & relationships, Social, group or collective psychology, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, Sociology: family and relationships, Media, Information & Communication Industries