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Pablo Barberá, PhD, Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science at the London School of Economics, discusses concepts of political polarization and digital technologies, including how the consumption of political information has changed; whether echo chambers, digital enclaves, and filter bubbles increase political polarization; whether social media increases exposure to diverse ideas and political polarization; how political ideology of social media users is measured; ways to visualize social networks; ways to measure inter-ideological dissemination of information, exposure to disagreement; ways social media increases and/or moderates polarization; and what affective polarization is and how it is measured.
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Chapter 1: How has Digital Technology Affected the Consumption of Political Information?
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Chapter 2: Do Echo Chambers, Digital Enclaves, and Filter Bubbles Increase Political Polarization?
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Chapter 3: Does Digital Technology Increase Exposure to More Diverse Ideas?
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Chapter 4: Can Social Media Actually Increase Political Polarization?
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Chapter 5: How is Political Ideology of Social Media Users Measured?
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Chapter 6: What does the Research Show?
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Chapter 7: What Ways have You Used to Visualize Social Media Networks?
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Chapter 8: How is Inter-Ideological Dissemination of Information Measured?
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Chapter 9: How is Exposure to Disagreement Measured?
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Chapter 10: Do Social Media Users have Greater Cross-Cutting Exposure to Political Information?
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Chapter 11: Are There Ways That Social Media does Increase Political Polarization?
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Chapter 12: Is Exposure to Social Media a Moderating Force?
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Chapter 13: What is Affective Polarization and How is it Measured?
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