Polarisation or just differences in opinion: How and why Facebook users disagree about Greta Thunberg

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F22%3AL2IAP6D4" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/22:L2IAP6D4 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216208:11320/23:AWUB6C96

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/02673231221116179" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1177/02673231221116179</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02673231221116179" target="_blank" >10.1177/02673231221116179</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Polarisation or just differences in opinion: How and why Facebook users disagree about Greta Thunberg

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

To what extent was Greta Thunberg a ?polarizing figure? on Facebook, in the period when she received the most extensive media attention? The paper analyses seven months of discussion concerning Thunberg and her message of intergenerational climate justice, using all relevant posts on public Facebook pages in Germany, Sweden, and the UK. We find that there are many similarities in the attitudes expressed and topics discussed on Facebook in the three countries; however, there are also some striking differences in the levels of polarisation. This comparative study provides evidence that the level of polarisation around these topics on Facebook is very low in Sweden and the UK, but high in Germany. In Germany, a group of political actors stand out as particularly polarising, and, in contrast to the other two countries, the topic of intergeneration justice, the core of Thunberg?s message, is almost absent from the German Facebook discourse. The study shows that Thunberg was not in general a polarising figure in the three European countries and that neither the affordances offered by the platform nor features of her person, message, or activism explain the observed polarisation around Thunberg on Facebook.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Polarisation or just differences in opinion: How and why Facebook users disagree about Greta Thunberg

Popis výsledku anglicky

To what extent was Greta Thunberg a ?polarizing figure? on Facebook, in the period when she received the most extensive media attention? The paper analyses seven months of discussion concerning Thunberg and her message of intergenerational climate justice, using all relevant posts on public Facebook pages in Germany, Sweden, and the UK. We find that there are many similarities in the attitudes expressed and topics discussed on Facebook in the three countries; however, there are also some striking differences in the levels of polarisation. This comparative study provides evidence that the level of polarisation around these topics on Facebook is very low in Sweden and the UK, but high in Germany. In Germany, a group of political actors stand out as particularly polarising, and, in contrast to the other two countries, the topic of intergeneration justice, the core of Thunberg?s message, is almost absent from the German Facebook discourse. The study shows that Thunberg was not in general a polarising figure in the three European countries and that neither the affordances offered by the platform nor features of her person, message, or activism explain the observed polarisation around Thunberg on Facebook.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

—

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

European Journal of Communication

ISSN

0267-3231

e-ISSN

1460-3705

Svazek periodika

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Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2022-8-17

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

1-18

Kód UT WoS článku

000841776800001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85136132398