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The Polarization Lab at Duke brings together the tools of social science and data science to counter political tribalism on social media.
Durham, NC
Joined September 2018
I’ll be sharing my favorite shots of the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science from around the world each day on Insta #sicss2022 #datascience #computationalsocialscience
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Showing off my #freshink for #SICSS2022 …. God I love this conference/community. Learn more at https://t.co/M32H88lrQL
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This is some of the best public writing I've seen on the impact of social media on politics; it captures both the complexity of the problem *as well as* the reality that crises can't wait for randomized controlled trials-- one of many things the great @JonHaidt has taught me.
What do we really know about social media? @chris_bail, author of Breaking the Social Media Prism, speaks with Gideon Lewis-Kraus for @NewYorker about the impacts of social media platforms, echo chambers, foreign misinformation & algorithms:
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1/ Before you share this, please learn about how the bot detection used works: it counts people as bots if they don’t post messages regularly to Twitter BUT most Twitter users are lurkers who do not post…
nypost.com
The audit, which was done for the social media giant by software firm SparkToro, found that 49.3% of the president's followers are "fake followers," according to Newsweek.
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1/ How do fringe ideas become mainstream? In 2015, I wrote a book about this subject. A lot has changed, but I still think what I learned can help us answer this question today-TLDR, we need to map the information ecosystem, & both the right *and* the left help fringe ideas grow.
We need to repudiate in the strongest terms the politicians and media figures who — whether for political gain or to boost ratings — have used their platforms to promote and normalize “replacement theory” and other starkly racist, anti-Semitic, and nativist conspiracy theories.
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Is @elonmusk a bot? One of *the* most advanced algorithms for bot detection thinks so, which illustrates just how difficult it might be to clean up this bird place. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ try the tool: https://t.co/sedxkIEQRC and technical references here: https://t.co/rwh7Yao1yV
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1/n People often ask me how to regulate social media…the answer is actually pretty simple:
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What is my biggest concern about the new U.S. census results? We continue to under-produce Jedi knights compared to the United Kingdom.
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Where have all the moderates gone? They’re still out there, but seldom heard on social media. On our latest episode, @DukeSanford prof and polarization expert @chris_bail shares insight into the nature of this endangered species online: https://t.co/J4bedNwfKm
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How can we stop Facebook’s decision about Trump from launching a new round of partisan warfare on social media? In this piece for CNN, I introduce new apps, bots, and tools that social media users can use to fight political tribalism from the bottom up. https://t.co/IMl9ODyCLc
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Fresh Off the Pod Press- my fascinating conversation w @chris_bail about his new book, Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing https://t.co/xrcF1THcrq
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Existing social media platforms are politically dysfunctional because they were never supposed to be otherwise... No one's really tried to build a platform that would actively and intentionally promote the practice of democracy. Me on new @chris_bail book:
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For your #FridayReads on #polarization, @McLemee reviews @chris_bail’s BREAKING THE SOCIAL MEDIA PRISM for @insidehighered: https://t.co/eSSEeWUFXI
@PrincetonUPress
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After studying social media users and polarization for more than a decade, I think I finally found the biggest troll on the internet. tldr: he's a middle aged man that lives with his mom. Meet the trolls who walk among us, and learn what their behavior means for everyone else:
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1/ Do you feel hopeless about political polarization on social media? Introducing a new suite of apps, bots, and other tools that you can use to make this place less polarizing from our Duke Polarization Lab: https://t.co/DFEEaSwrMv
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1/4 Had fun talking to NPR about some new research on incivility and politics in our @polarizationlab, as well as my recent article in @asr_journal with @TayWhittenBrown and @MannMarcus:
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When Trump posts a mean tweet, how does it make its way across social media into the American consciousness? Researchers crunched the numbers to see if his negative tweets were shared more often.
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Twitter’s Flawed Solution to Political Polarization
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On social media, encountering opposing views can make people become even more wedded to their own.
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1/8 Did you know that Twitter is experimenting with new features that would expose its users to opposing political views? In this @nytimes piece, I describe why this idea could backfire based upon a large online experiment recently conducted by my lab:
nytimes.com
On social media, encountering opposing views can make people become even more wedded to their own.
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Nice coverage from the Washington Post on our research using bots to disrupt echo chambers on Twitter:
washingtonpost.com
One of the most famous ideas in social psychology says that to break down barriers we should get to know the other side. That's not always true -- especially on social media.
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