Latest posts tagged with #Polarization on Bluesky
"There's battle lines being drawn/
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong…
Paranoia strikes deep/
Into your life it will creep…"
—Stephen Stills / Buffalo Springfield "For What It's Worth (Stop Hey What's That Sound)", 1966, after LA Sunset Strip protest/riot
m.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5J...
#Polarization
Which #America, #WHCA?
#DEMOCRACY #freedomofthepress #journalism #truth #facts #objectivity #FirstAmendment #FourthEstate
#KHAMODEMOCRACY #fascism #Trump #ambiguity #propaganda #lies #disinformation #bothsidesism #whataboutism #falseequivalence #toadyism #polarization #capitulation #collaboration
📣 New Podcast! "Rob McConnell Interviews - DR. MARK DAVIS - Demons of Democracy" on @Spreaker #analysis #civiclife #commentary #debate #democracy #demonsofdemocracy #discourse #governance #government #ideology #institutions #leadership #markdavis #polarization #politicaldebate #politicalthought
... conflict of North versus South, but a fragmented, "feudal" collapse where identity politics and "us vs them" #polarization override institutional allegiance. In this scenario, "survival is social," and citizens are forced to form "tribes" for #security as #federal #authority #dissolves. ...
📢 New PLEDGE blog post #13 by IPU Berlin team.
How can policymakers listen to emotions without reinforcing polarization?
Read the latest insights from the PLEDGE research.
🔗 www.pledgeproject.eu/pledge-blog-...
#PLEDGEProject #Democracy #Polarization
IN NEW ISSUE: How do different types of #polarization affect political #corruption? Áron Hajnal analyses a panel of 153 countries (2000-2021) to examine this & how regime type moderates these effects. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/vhEAPi8
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsci #polsky
The new book by @uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social @ericmerkley.bsky.social 'Polarization, Eh?' explores the causes and consequences of the growing affective #polarization and inter-partisan hostility in #Canada. utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
New in FirstView:
Waisanen & Becker push back on conflict profiteers. Americans are far less polarised than media often suggests.
Before we "bridge" divides, we need to first *reveal* the common ground that already exists.
OA: tinyurl.com/6sfrecfp
#DemocraticTheory #Polarization #Democracy
X and TikTok algorithms favour the far right at the expense of moderate parties - People vs. Big Tech
peoplevsbig.tech/x-and-tiktok-algorithms-...
#BigTech #SocialMedia #FarRight #Polarization #Democracy #LeaveX #LeaveTikTok
The more active users are on social media, the more polarized they are. The opinions of the these extreme users are filling your newsfeed, but they are not representative of most citizens or even most social media users--which are far less polarized! https://lnkd.in/eZGKg54Z This creates false perceptions of social norms and stereotypes, creating a funhouse mirror effect https://lnkd.in/e_aCGbg4
The more active users are on social media, the more polarized they are.
Political attitudes differ but share a common low-dimensional structure
across social media and survey data: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.02102
Inside the funhouse mirror factory: How […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Can you still say what you think? I played my cards face up—Trump, Biden, AIPAC, the stikstof crisis, and why nuance is dying. It's not about winning. It's about dialogue.
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#FreeSpeech #Polarization #Dialogue
El lado del mal - Fear of the Dark: DeepFakes, Sappo & Sentiment Analysis elladodelmal.com/2026/03/fear... #DeepFakes #FakeNews #ClickBait #Polarization #CognitiveServices
These billionaires are using their algorithms to manipulate us, dividing us and making a profit off our outrage, anger, and fear. It's a toxic cycle that's being fueled for one thing: money.
Credit: @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social | Source
#Manipulation #Propaganda #Deception #Polarization
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: System justification = People defend existing systems and discount data showing systemic problems. #Science4Policy #learning #Polarization
'Russian #disinformation campaigns are increasingly capitalizing on the polarization within European societies, observes Czech disinformation expert Jakub Kalenský. Creating chaos and distrust is a goal in itself. And now there's AI.'
www.groene.nl/artikel/de-r...
#Russia #AI #polarization
#PhD #position Social cohesion and #climate #polarization: how to communicate effectively about climate change
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#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis […]
Whataboutism doesn't actually solve any problems, it just arbitrarily diminishes the severity of a problem and by proxy the feelings of the people affected. The amount of people who think that X thing is bad but Y thing is worse, so X thing isn't bad is deeply saddening.
#nuance #Polarization
People say I'm biased against the right, but when one side consistently refuses to work towards solutions, how can we expect a fair debate?
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#Bias #Politics #Polarization #Partisanship
We're all a little more awake now. But we don't see we're being played against each other. The real question isn't which bubble to join — it's how to leave the trenches altogether. You can start the change.
🔗 medium.com/infinite-imp...
#Polarization #Awareness #Society
Getting scared of both polarize sides. Get sane please. Get...Safe.
#Polarization #PreventCivilWar2.0
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: Stereotyping = The active use of stereotypes during evaluation biases what gets accepted. #Science4Policy #learning #Polarization
Algorithmic content on X increases #polarization
But downranking content that expresses partisan animosity or antidemocratic attitudes significantly reduces affective polarization equivalent "to 3 years of change in United States affective polarization"
www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
IN NEW ISSUE: How do different types of #polarization affect political #corruption? Áron Hajnal analyses a panel of 153 countries (2000-2021) to examine this & how regime type moderates these effects. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/vhEAPi8
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsci #polsky
Page 203 (highlighted section): “March 2015 brought another unprecedented event, when Arkansas senator Tom Cotton and forty-six other Republican senators wrote an open letter to Iran’s leaders insisting that President Obama had no authority to negotiate a deal over Iran’s nuclear program.”
Page 204 (highlighted section): “…angered by Obama’s decision to use an ‘executive agreement’ rather than a treaty, Senate Republicans intervened in diplomatic negotiations, long the domain of the executive branch. Florida senator Bill Nelson, a moderate Democrat, described the letter as ‘jaw-dropping. … I couldn’t help but reflect, would I have signed such a letter under President George W. Bush? I would never even have contemplated that.’ Cotton and his allies had brazenly sought to undermine the authority of a sitting president.”
Coincidentally, I came across a passage in How Democracies Die that describes the Obama administration’s diplomatic negotiations with Iran. These negotiations were carried out without congressional approval, reflecting the deep polarization of US politics […]
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#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #hitler'scharisma #rees #hitler #nazi #fascism #fascist #germany #enemy #jews #polarization #antisemitism #historyrepeating
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: Binary thinking (over-categorization) = Forcing issues into either/or boxes erases nuance and pushes evidence to fit a side. #Science4Policy #learning #Polarization
Recently saw some very dangerous stigmatizing anti-sex work/anti-sex rhetoric, so unfortunately seems necessary to create a thread debunking those and similar claims.
www.tumblr.com/lonewanderer...
#Sex #SexPositive #nuance #Polarization #CriticalThinking #Society #Empathy #relationships
I hate the notion that if someone is criticizing a bad person then anything they say in that criticism is good and/or true. Completely lacks nuance and encourages echo chambers enforcing bad behavior/stigma that is lumped in with actual criticism.
#nuance #Polarization #CriticalThinking #Society
#OEA_highlight Scene-level passive polarization 3D imaging doi.org/10.29026/oea... by Prof. #Fei_Liu @XDUofChina #3D_imaging #imaging #polarization #natural #scenes
