Häussler, Thomas (2018). Heating up the debate? Measuring fragmentation and polarisation in a German climate change hyperlink network. Social networks, 54, pp. 303-313. Elsevier 10.1016/j.socnet.2017.10.002
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Research into polarisation on the internet has so far primarily focused on contentious issues and yielded contradictory results. Shifting the focus to a non-contentious setting, this article combines community detection with brokerage analysis and exponential random graph models to assess the degree of polarisation at different levels of a German hyperlink network on climate change. Although homophily accounts for a moderate degree of polarisation at the top level of the network, the communities reveal that other factors prove more decisive in shaping its structure and the article thus contributes to a more refined understanding of the nature of online polarisation.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Communication and Media Studies (ICMB) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Häussler, Thomas Wolfgang Martin |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 320 Political science |
ISSN: |
0378-8733 |
Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Funders: |
[4] Swiss National Science Foundation |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Thomas Häussler |
Date Deposited: |
26 Apr 2018 14:36 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:09 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1016/j.socnet.2017.10.002 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.109691 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/109691 |