This is a randomized experiment so important to the notion that Facebook (likely also Twitter and YouTube) causally fuel polarization. (Repost, typo, where’s my edit button, etc.)https://twitter.com/jbenton/status/1090682557761576960 …
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Replying to @zeynep @davidlazer
And political knowledge. Perhaps in current environment, political knowledge increases polarization?
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The most ideologically consistent voters are the most educated and most polarized
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Interestingly, "ideological consistency" has increased dramatically over the last decade-- but in the absence of dramatic increases in education. The question is whether this has been driven by the type of socially embedded of learning abt politics that is inherent to soc media.
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Thought the original Gentzkow NBER paper on social media/internet usage with the Pew data meant that was unlikely.
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Which do you mean? The one based on ecological inference?
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I don't think internet user/non-user is that meaningful anymore. I know this makes research very tough but.. Fox News is competing with Breitbart, which is doing very well on Facebook. Someone elderly just watching Fox News, never touching a keyboard, is not unaffected.
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Is it a cause or just endogenous I think is the biggest question. I read
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I just don't see a scenario in which socialization dynamics (which social media mobilizes when you don't just read stuff but you react to it publicly and in groups) don't affect people. Thorny and hard to measure but socialization is always potent. What else is human societies?
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