Political echo chambers on Belgian Facebook pages
From the idealized Habermasian public sphere to the criticized "echo chambers": online public forums are often described as spaces where a potential democratic ideal can unfold. In this research we mobilise data scraped from the social networking site Facebook to construct two interlinked data-sets, in order to investigate the political diversity of online discussions before the 2014 federal Belgianelection. At first, a bipartite network made of 800 pages from the political parties and its users is constructed. Then, by means of theLouvain community detection algorithm, users’ political orient... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | conferencePoster |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
Schlagwörter: | Sociologie / Théorie de l'information / Statistique appliquée / Statistique politico-sociale |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26916493 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/264861 |