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Auditing the Effect of Social Network Recommendations on Polarization in Geometrical Ideological Spaces

open access: yesACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2021
The prevalence of algorithmic recommendations has raised public concern about undesired societal effects. A central threat is the risk of polarization, which is difficult to conceptualize and to measure, making it difficult to assess the role of ...
P. Morales, Jean-Philippe Cointet
semanticscholar   +1 more source

U.S. Consumer Preferences for Cage‐Free Eggs and Hen Housing Policies

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farm animal welfare (FAW) continues to be a divisive issue in the egg industry. In the United States, 10 states and most major retailers have implemented policies or voluntary pledges to transition to 100% cage‐free egg sales. We use best‐worst scaling and discrete choice experiments to evaluate U.S.
Vincenzina Caputo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying Claim Robustness Through Adversarial Framing: A Conceptual Framework for an AI-Enabled Diagnostic Tool

open access: yesAI
Objectives: We introduce the conceptual framework for the Adversarial Claim Robustness Diagnostics (ACRD) protocol, a novel tool for assessing how factual claims withstand ideological distortion.
Christophe Faugere
doaj   +1 more source

News sharing on Twitter reveals emergent fragmentation of media agenda and persistent polarization

open access: yesEPJ Data Science, 2022
News sharing on social networks reveals how information disseminates among users. This process, constrained by user preferences and social ties, plays a key role in the formation of public opinion.
Tomas Cicchini   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ideological and Temporal Components of Network Polarization in Online Political Participatory Media

open access: yes, 2015
Political polarization is traditionally analyzed through the ideological stances of groups and parties, but it also has a behavioral component that manifests in the interactions between individuals.
Abisheva, Adiya   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Farmers’ Protests in Germany: Media Coverage and Types of Bias

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The German farmers’ protests of 2024 sparked widespread media coverage and public debate. Yet, media coverage was not always positive, reflecting the media's attention‐seeking and selective focus. Occurrences of farmers blocking media outlets reflected distrust in how their concerns were portrayed.
Felix Schlichte, Doris Läpple
wiley   +1 more source

Exposure to Cross-Cutting Information on Social Media and Perceived Political Polarization

open access: yesAsian Journal for Public Opinion Research
Using data from a survey of 2,641 South Korean adults in 2023, this study examines the impact of exposure to cross-cutting political information in social media on perceived political polarization.
Chang Sup Park
doaj   +1 more source

Factual belief polarization between Democrats and Republicans: source or epiphenomenon of ideological and affective polarization?

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
Democrats and Republicans have polarized in their attitudes (i.e., ideological polarization) and their feelings toward each other (i.e., affective polarization).
Roderik Rekker, Roderik Rekker
doaj   +1 more source

Party System Compactness: Measurement and Consequences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
An important property of any party system is the set of choices it presents to the electorate. In this paper we analyze the distribution of parties relative to voters in the multidimensional issue space and introduce two measures of the dispersion of the
Alvarez, R. Michael, Nagler, Jonathan
core   +2 more sources

A typology of schools across the four nations of the United Kingdom: Class, race and geography

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper we analyse the hierarchical field of schools across the United Kingdom during the transition to university and suggest that there are five socially distinct clusters of schools. Our five‐cluster typology of UK schools is composed of an established group of elite private and state schools, schools for the white rural and suburban ...
Sol Gamsu, Håkan Forsberg
wiley   +1 more source

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