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Arthur D. Santana - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Political deliberation on facebook during electoral campaigns exploring the relevance of moderator s technical role and Political Ideology
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 2015Co-Authors: Lindita Camaj, Arthur D. SantanaAbstract:ABSTRACTThis study examines the potential of Facebook to provide a channel of Political deliberation during electoral campaigns. Through a comparative content analysis of user-generated Political commentary on candidates’ Facebook pages during the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, it explores the technical role of moderators and moderators’ Political Ideology for online deliberation. Results show that social networking sites (SNSs) can represent spaces that accommodate a new public sphere and that quality deliberation can occur even in nonPolitical platforms. However, the quality of online deliberation depends on the socioPolitical context in which it occurs rather than on the technological use of online spaces for deliberation. Although Political discourse in moderated sites showed more sophisticated argumentation, Political Ideology did not seem to matter for the quality of deliberation. Rather, the quality of the discourse depended on the particular candidate’s use of the Facebook platform as a too...
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Political Deliberation on Facebook during Electoral Campaigns: Exploring the Relevance of Moderator’s Technical Role and Political Ideology
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 2015Co-Authors: Lindita Camaj, Arthur D. SantanaAbstract:ABSTRACTThis study examines the potential of Facebook to provide a channel of Political deliberation during electoral campaigns. Through a comparative content analysis of user-generated Political commentary on candidates’ Facebook pages during the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, it explores the technical role of moderators and moderators’ Political Ideology for online deliberation. Results show that social networking sites (SNSs) can represent spaces that accommodate a new public sphere and that quality deliberation can occur even in nonPolitical platforms. However, the quality of online deliberation depends on the socioPolitical context in which it occurs rather than on the technological use of online spaces for deliberation. Although Political discourse in moderated sites showed more sophisticated argumentation, Political Ideology did not seem to matter for the quality of deliberation. Rather, the quality of the discourse depended on the particular candidate’s use of the Facebook platform as a too...
Lindita Camaj - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Political deliberation on facebook during electoral campaigns exploring the relevance of moderator s technical role and Political Ideology
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 2015Co-Authors: Lindita Camaj, Arthur D. SantanaAbstract:ABSTRACTThis study examines the potential of Facebook to provide a channel of Political deliberation during electoral campaigns. Through a comparative content analysis of user-generated Political commentary on candidates’ Facebook pages during the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, it explores the technical role of moderators and moderators’ Political Ideology for online deliberation. Results show that social networking sites (SNSs) can represent spaces that accommodate a new public sphere and that quality deliberation can occur even in nonPolitical platforms. However, the quality of online deliberation depends on the socioPolitical context in which it occurs rather than on the technological use of online spaces for deliberation. Although Political discourse in moderated sites showed more sophisticated argumentation, Political Ideology did not seem to matter for the quality of deliberation. Rather, the quality of the discourse depended on the particular candidate’s use of the Facebook platform as a too...
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Political Deliberation on Facebook during Electoral Campaigns: Exploring the Relevance of Moderator’s Technical Role and Political Ideology
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 2015Co-Authors: Lindita Camaj, Arthur D. SantanaAbstract:ABSTRACTThis study examines the potential of Facebook to provide a channel of Political deliberation during electoral campaigns. Through a comparative content analysis of user-generated Political commentary on candidates’ Facebook pages during the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, it explores the technical role of moderators and moderators’ Political Ideology for online deliberation. Results show that social networking sites (SNSs) can represent spaces that accommodate a new public sphere and that quality deliberation can occur even in nonPolitical platforms. However, the quality of online deliberation depends on the socioPolitical context in which it occurs rather than on the technological use of online spaces for deliberation. Although Political discourse in moderated sites showed more sophisticated argumentation, Political Ideology did not seem to matter for the quality of deliberation. Rather, the quality of the discourse depended on the particular candidate’s use of the Facebook platform as a too...
Frederick W Mayer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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beyond Political Ideology the impact of attitudes towards government and corporations on trust in science
Science Communication, 2018Co-Authors: Emily Pechar, Thomas Bernauer, Frederick W MayerAbstract:Understanding public distrust of science is both theoretically and practically important. While previous research has focused on the association between Political Ideology and trust in science, it is at best an inconsistent predictor. This study demonstrates that two dimensions of Political Ideology—attitudes towards governments and corporations—can more precisely predict trust in science across issues. Using a survey in the United States and Germany on the science of climate change and genetically modified foods, we find that an individual’s trust in science varies across issues and that attitudes towards government and corporations are important predictors of this trust.
Thomas Dietz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the influence of Political Ideology on trust in science
Environmental Research Letters, 2013Co-Authors: Aaron M Mccright, Katherine Dentzman, Meghan Charters, Thomas DietzAbstract:In recent years, some scholars, journalists, and science advocates have promoted broad claims that ‘conservatives distrust science’ or ‘conservatives oppose science’. We argue that such claims may oversimplify in ways that lead to empirical inaccuracies. The Anti-Reflexivity Thesis suggests a more nuanced examination of how Political Ideology influences views about science. The Anti-Reflexivity Thesis hypothesizes that some sectors of society mobilize to defend the industrial capitalist order from the claims of environmentalists and some environmental scientists that the current economic system causes serious ecological and public health problems. The Anti-Reflexivity Thesis expects that conservatives will report significantly less trust in, and support for, science that identifies environmental and public health impacts of economic production (i.e., impact science) than liberals. It also expects that conservatives will report a similar or greater level of trust in, and support for, science that provides new inventions or innovations for economic production (i.e., production science) than liberals. Analyzing data from a recent survey experiment with 798 adults recruited from the US general public, our results confirm the expectations of the Anti-Reflexivity Thesis. Conservatives report less trust in impact scientists but greater trust in production scientists than their liberal counterparts. We argue that further work that increases the accuracy and depth of our understanding of the relationship between Political Ideology and views about science is likely crucial for addressing the politicized science-based issues of our age.
Roman Pabayo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Political party affiliation Political Ideology and mortality
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2015Co-Authors: Roman Pabayo, Ichiro Kawachi, Peter A MuennigAbstract:Background Ecological and cross-sectional studies have indicated that conservative Political Ideology is associated with better health. Longitudinal analyses of mortality are needed because subjective assessments of Ideology may confound subjective assessments of health, particularly in cross-sectional analyses. Methods Data were derived from the 2008 General Social Survey-National Death Index data set. Cox proportional analysis models were used to determine whether Political party affiliation or Political Ideology was associated with time to death. Also, we attempted to identify whether self-reported happiness and self-rated health acted as mediators between Political beliefs and time to death. Results In this analysis of 32 830 participants and a total follow-up time of 498 845 person-years, we find that Political party affiliation and Political Ideology are associated with mortality. However, with the exception of independents (adjusted HR (AHR)=0.93, 95% CI 0.90 to 0.97), Political party differences are explained by the participants’ underlying sociodemographic characteristics. With respect to Ideology, conservatives (AHR=1.06, 95% CI 1.01 to 1.12) and moderates (AHR=1.06, 95% CI 1.01 to 1.11) are at greater risk for mortality during follow-up than liberals. Conclusions Political party affiliation and Political Ideology appear to be different predictors of mortality.
