Do social media undermine social cohesion? A critical review

S González‐Bailón, Y Lelkes - Social Issues and Policy …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
We evaluate the empirical evidence interrogating the question of whether social media
erodes social cohesion. We look at how networks, information exchange, and norms operate …

The MAD model of moral contagion: The role of motivation, attention, and design in the spread of moralized content online

WJ Brady, MJ Crockett… - … on Psychological Science, 2020‏ - journals.sagepub.com
With more than 3 billion users, online social networks represent an important venue for
moral and political discourse and have been used to organize political revolutions, influence …

Three roots of online toxicity: disembodiment, accountability, and disinhibition

S Pandita, K Garg, J Zhang, D Mobbs - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024‏ - cell.com
Online communication is central to modern social life, yet it is often linked to toxic
manifestations and reduced well-being. How and why online communication enables these …

[ספר][B] The dynamics of political communication: Media and politics in a digital age

RM Perloff - 2021‏ - taylorfrancis.com
The third edition of The Dynamics of Political Communication continues its comprehensive
coverage of communication and politics, focusing on problematic issues that bear on the …

Current and near-term AI as a potential existential risk factor

BS Bucknall, S Dori-Hacohen - Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM …, 2022‏ - dl.acm.org
There is a substantial and ever-growing corpus of evidence and literature exploring the
impacts of Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies on society, politics, and humanity as a …

Dynamics of polarizing rhetoric in congressional tweets

AO Ballard, R DeTamble, S Dorsey… - Legislative Studies …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Affective polarization is pervasive in modern US politics, and can be intensified by strategic
messaging from members of Congress. But there are gaps in our knowledge of the …

[PDF][PDF] Beyond anonymity: Network affordances, under deindividuation, improve social media discussion quality

K Jaidka, A Zhou, Y Lelkes, J Egelhofer… - Journal of Computer …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
The online sphere allows people to be personally anonymous while simultaneously being
socially identifiable. Twitter users can use a pseudonym but signal allegiance to a political …

" Finsta gets all my bad pictures": Instagram Users' Self-Presentation Across Finsta and Rinsta Accounts

X Huang, J Vitak - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2022‏ - dl.acm.org
Significant research has examined social media users' self-presentation strategies, both
within a single account and across multiple platforms. Few studies, however, have …

Corporate sustainability communication as 'Fake News': Firms' greenwashing on Twitter

D Oppong-Tawiah, J Webster - Sustainability, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Fake news on social media has engulfed the world of politics in recent years and is now
posing the same threat in other areas, such as corporate social responsibility …

Capricious opinions: A study of polarization of social media groups

AK Kushwaha, AK Kar, SK Roy… - Government Information …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Experts claim that the world is increasingly polarized by emerging social media platforms.
The political actors amplify the polarization through their agents' user-generated content …