Social media as a catalyst for online deliberation? Exploring the affordances of Facebook and YouTube for political expression

By Daniel Halpern, Jennifer L. Gibbs. Computers in Human Behavior, 2013

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Subfields: Communication, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Like Trainer, Like Bot? Inheritance of Bias in Algorithmic Content Moderation (2017, background): “of diverse viewpoints [19], aggressive, offensive or bullying comments can stifle debate, drive people away, and lead to intervention by regulators or law enforcement.”
The social media political participation model: A goal systems theory perspective (2020, background): “Findings suggest that the use of social media can promote various forms of political engagement (Boulianne, 2015; Dimitrova and Bystrom, 2013; Dimitrova et al., 2014; Halpern and Gibbs, 2013).”
Partisan Provocation: The Role of Partisan News Use and Emotional Responses in Political Information Sharing in Social Media (2016, background): “People are sometimes rude or uncivil in online discussions (Halpern & Gibbs, 2013; Stroud, Scacco, Muddiman, & Curry, 2015), but understanding the nature of political discussion online can help explain why many people avoid or are uninterested in politics.”
Explicating Affordances: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Affordances in Communication Research (2017, background): “Anonymity can be described in terms of the “level of identifiability vs. anonymity” as an affordance, not as a property of an object (Halpern & Gibbs, 2013).”
Motivations for Political Discussion: Antecedents and Consequences on Civic Engagement (2016, unknown): “…influence of citizen-to-citizen communication on participation includes computer-mediated and online forms of discussion, with evidence increasingly pointing out a complementary role between interpersonal and online forms of communication (Cho et al., 2009; Freelon, 2010; Halpern & Gibbs, 2013).”
The Needs-Affordances-Features Perspective for the Use of Social Media (2018, unknown): “This affordance was labeled as identity by Kietzmann et al. (2011) and as identifiability by Halpern and Gibbs (2013).”
The Digital Architectures of Social Media: Comparing Political Campaigning on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat in the 2016 U.S. Election (2018, background): “Halpern and Gibbs (2013), for example, show that the anonymity provided to user accounts on YouTube has a negative impact on the politeness of discussion in comment fields vis-à-vis the more personalized accounts required by Facebook.”