Conference proceeding
Cultural Fault Lines and Political Polarization
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2017 ACM WEB SCIENCE CONFERENCE (WEBSCI '17), pp.213-217
01/01/2017
DOI: 10.1145/3091478.3091520
Abstract
Survey research reveals deep partisan divisions in the U.S. that extend beyond politics to include cultural tastes, lifestyle choices, and consumer preferences. We show how co-following on Twitter can be used to measure the extent to which these divisions are also evident in social media. We measure political alignment (location on the red-blue spectrum), relevance (overlap between cultural and political interests), and polarization (internal division) in music, movies, hobbies, sports, vehicles, food and drink, technology, universities, religions, and business. The results provide compelling evidence that "Tesla liberals" and "bird hunting conservatives" are stereotypes grounded in empirical reality.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Cultural Fault Lines and Political Polarization
- Creators
- Yongren Shi - Yale UniversityKai Mast - Cornell UniversityIngmar Weber - Qatar Computing Research InstituteAgrippa Kellum - Cornell UniversityMichael Macy - Cornell UniversityACM
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2017 ACM WEB SCIENCE CONFERENCE (WEBSCI '17), pp.213-217
- DOI
- 10.1145/3091478.3091520
- Publisher
- Assoc Computing Machinery
- Number of pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2017
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology
- Record Identifier
- 9984306243202771
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