Link is: http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.7254
This article describes the research done by Jisun An, Daniele Quercia, Jon Crowcroft on how sharing political articles on social sites, namely Facebook and Twitter, affect the way you see the world.
Perhaps the good old newsfeed style of stuff is where it's at, while ones that are sorted using some magical rating (I'm looking at you Facebook, Reddit, etc.) and don't give you an option for chronological order are a bit broken! Don't forget to sort by time SN!
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Partisan Sharing: Facebook Evidence and Societal Consequences
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(Score: 2) by Alfred on Monday September 29 2014, @04:52PM
I may not be normal but I think my postings would be based on what I like as compared to what I already know and like. I doubt any media persona (say Rush Limbaugh) is going to post a link to someone he despises (say Rachel Maddow) and then have an epiphany and think she was right. Reverse the roles and get the same result. If I post drunk, I don't think that my drunk self is intelligent and change my sober ways.
I post what I like, the research is broken. People filter their postings through their likes, no one changes because of their postings.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Buck Feta on Monday September 29 2014, @05:25PM
> change my sober ways
You got yerself the beginnin' of hit country song right there partner!
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by kaszz on Monday September 29 2014, @04:58PM
The kind of personality those sites rewards perhaps a self enforcing loop that becomes a race to the bottom of quality analytical thought. Where who you know rather than what you think becomes the important factor. And it favors people that has no value of privacy.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday September 29 2014, @07:27PM
Look at your friends. Unless you're some kind of weirdo you've probably got both neocons and social justice warrior friends. People who can act civilized at work but feel the need to let their freak flag fly on facebook so its a continuous psuedo-astroturf stream of whatever Fox News or Pravda reported today.
I read the abstract of the article and I'm not sure they accounted for party faithful soldiers. So volunteer astroturfers (All natural grown from seed astroturf? Free range organic astroturf?) tend to post a continuous stream of pasta and shockingly enough they tend to vote for their heros (on either side). And that seems to summarize the abstract.
The value of the article is it give quantitative numbers not just the obvious but not discussed qualitative. That part was interesting.
I do wonder if you corrected for the party faithful if "normal" people behave that way.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2014, @07:56PM
I am a self described old school republican. But some of the things on my facebook feeds. Seriously what is *wrong* with you people...
Most of it is little more than childish name calling. I see this out of *both* parties. No one wants to talk rationally about public policy. They just want little 2 line sound bites that serve only to make the other side look bad.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Tork on Monday September 29 2014, @10:17PM
There's a dude on my friends list that routinely posts anti-gun regulation blurbs like you describe. I had a little chuckle at one he posted where a story would never make it to the 'left-controlled-media' about an armed teacher shooting an armed student who had opened fire in the school. The reason being that it was a gun that saved the lives of students.
I didn't discuss it with him, but it did amuse me that he was convinced that the left couldn't effortlessly spin that in the direction of gun-control. It's like the phrase 'main-stream media' puts a whole segment of the US population on screensaver mode.
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(Score: 2) by Leebert on Monday September 29 2014, @10:48PM
One thing I learned from Facebook is that there's a big market for out-of-context pictures of politicians (especially President Obama) looking smug or downright evil.
Seriously, you could make a mint selling those things as clipart.