Exploitation of Intercountry Adoption: Toward Common Understanding and Action
In: Adoption quarterly: innovations in community and clinical practice, theory, and research, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 63-80
ISSN: 1544-452X
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In: Adoption quarterly: innovations in community and clinical practice, theory, and research, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 63-80
ISSN: 1544-452X
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 124, Heft 5, S. 1496-1548
ISSN: 1537-5390
Social media sites are often blamed for exacerbating political polarization by creating "echo chambers" that prevent people from being exposed to information that contradicts their preexisting beliefs. We conducted a field experiment that offered a large group of Democrats and Republicans financial compensation to follow bots that retweeted messages by elected officials and opinion leaders with opposing political views. Republican participants expressed substantially more conservative views after following a liberal Twitter bot, whereas Democrats' attitudes became slightly more liberal after following a conservative Twitter bot—although this effect was not statistically significant. Despite several limitations, this study has important implications for the emerging field of computational social science and ongoing efforts to reduce political polarization online.
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