1st Edition
Digital Media, Political Polarization and Challenges to Democracy
Introduction: Digital media, political polarization and challenges to democracy 1. Parametrizing Brexit: mapping Twitter political space to parliamentary constituencies 2. Facebook news and (de)polarization: reinforcing spirals in the 2016 US election 3. Do not blame it on the algorithm: an empirical assessment of multiple recommender systems and their impact on content diversity 4. Women politicians are more engaging: male versus female politicians’ ability to generate users’ engagement on social media during an election campaign 5. Commitment in the cloud? Social media participation in the sunflower movement 6. Counter-surveillance and alternative new media in Turkey
Biography
Maren Beaufort is a scientist in the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Alpen-Adria-University, Austria. Her research interests include social media, political participation, media effects, media quality, and media literacy. She participates in the European Commission's ‘Media Pluralism Monitor’.
