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Political behaviour and the acoustics of social media

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  • Helen Margetts

    (Helen Margetts is Professor of Society and the Internet, and Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 1 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3JS, UK.)

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Social networks are not a new phenomenon — people have always associated with like-minded others — but the advent of social media has led to a vast increase in the amount of social information that we see. We need data and experiments to understand how this information shapes our political landscape.

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  • Helen Margetts, 2017. "Political behaviour and the acoustics of social media," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 1(4), pages 1-3, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:nathum:v:1:y:2017:i:4:d:10.1038_s41562-017-0086
    DOI: 10.1038/s41562-017-0086
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    1. Bertie Vidgen & Taha Yasseri, 2020. "What, when and where of petitions submitted to the UK government during a time of chaos," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 53(3), pages 535-557, September.
    2. Caetano, Marco Antonio Leonel, 2021. "Political activity in social media induces forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 167(C).
    3. Soojong Kim, 2019. "Directionality of information flow and echoes without chambers," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(5), pages 1-22, May.

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