Fake news and ideological polarization
By Dominic Spohr. 2017
369 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/852879239426955df346cc0aea450deec3f1e94b
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Citations in the corpus
- Misinformation sharing and social media fatigue during COVID-19: An affordance and cognitive load perspective (2020, neutral): “This is the result of individuals' own choices due to psychological tendencies as well as AI-based recommendation systems that aim to provide users content they are likely to enjoy (Spohr, 2017).”
- #HowIWillChange: Engaging men and boys in the #MeToo movement. (2019, background): “…audience, recent studies have indicated that people often exist in “echo chambers” within online spaces, whereby their preexisting views are amplified and reinforced by the news content they are exposed to and the messages of like-minded people who make up their virtual social group (Spohr, 2017).”
- Trends in the diffusion of misinformation on social media (2018, neutral): “Many argue that false news stories played a major role in the 2016 election (for example, Olson 2016; Parkinson 2016; Read 2016; Gunther et al. 2018), and in the ongoing political divisions and crises that have followed it (for example, Spohr 2017; Azzimonti and Fernandes 2018; Tharoor 2018).”