Social media supporting political deliberation across multiple public spheres: Towards depolarization

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1409-1421

  Semaan, Bryan ^a   Robertson, Scott P ^a   Douglas, Sara ^b   Maruyama, Misa ^b  

^a University of Hawai'i at Manoa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Depolarization; Multi mediation; Public sphere; Social media

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DEPOLARIZATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SPHERES; TOOLS;

EXPOSED TO; MULTI-MEDIATION; MULTIPLE TOOLS; POLITICAL INFORMATION; QUALITATIVE STUDY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84899005354     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2531602.2531605     Document Type: Conference Paper

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