Is the Internet Causing Political Polarization? Evidence from Demographics

By Levi Boxell, Matthew Gentzkow, Jesse M. Shapiro. 2017

168 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/501ab126d9220b3236741801b8f25f5f6668aa1a

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Citations in the corpus

• FANG: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection Using Graph Representation (2020, background): “We also hypothesize that loosely-connected social entities often behave differently from our observation that social entities are highly polarized, especially in left–right politics [4].”
• Can the COVID-19 Pandemic and Oil Prices Drive the US Partisan Conflict Index? (2020, unknown): “There is abundant evidence suggesting a substantial increase in polarisation across political parties in the US (Boxell et al., 2017).”