Frenemies - How Social Media Polarizes America

Using Facebook makes Americans psychologically polarized: negatively judging and stereotyping those people with whom they disagree about politics. The book is for graduates in political science, sociology, social psychology, and mass communication, as well as Americans who want to understand why they are repelled by politics today.

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.

Summary

Using Facebook makes Americans psychologically polarized: negatively judging and stereotyping those people with whom they disagree about politics. The book is for graduates in political science, sociology, social psychology, and mass communication, as well as Americans who want to understand why they are repelled by politics today.

Product details

• Authors: Jaime E Settle, Jaime E. Settle, Jaime E. (College of William and Mary Settle
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781108459952
• ISBN: 978-1-108-45995-2
• No. of pages: 332
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Sociology: family & relationships, Social, group or collective psychology, Politics and government, Political science and theory, Sociology: family and relationships, Media, Information & Communication Industries