Tweeting on Catalonia’s Independence: The Dynamics of Political Discussion and Group Polarisation

Balcells, Joan; Padró‐Solanet, Albert

doi:10.20901/ms.7.14.9

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“…On the one hand, diversification, polarisation, and commodification shaped the procés in online spaces (Balcells & Padró-Solanet, 2016). On the other hand, the institutional actors and ideologies described by previous studies on digital nationalism do not resemble the Catalan ones.…”

Section: Framing Digital Nationalism In Cataloniamentioning

confidence: 85%

The Catalan Digital Republic. A Theoretical Review

Pitroso

2024

JEMIE

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This theoretical review analyses digital nationalism in Catalonia. It describes the context of the confrontation between the pro- independence movement and the Spanish government. This confrontation is characterised by a paradigm dominated by negotiations, mobilisations, and repression, which eventually led to the 2017 independence referendum. The failure of the independence process led grassroots groups and major parties to develop original digital strategies. Whilst grassroots groups relied on digital tools to organise spectacular protests, the Junts per Catalunya (Together for Catalonia) party and the Consell de la República (Council of the Republic) organisation promoted the República Digital (Digital Republic) project. The study frames Catalan nationalism in relation to previous research on digital nationalism. It underlines how, in terms of actors involved and ideologies promoted, the Catalan secessionist project does not fit into models described by the academic literature about digital nationalism. Furthermore, this research analyses how the Digital Republic has been articulated by Catalan institutions and nationalist organisations in order to create a “virtual state”. Finally, the study discusses the Digital Republic as a strategy to avoid direct confrontation with the Spanish authorities and its attempt to create a “digital surrogate” to independence.

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Section: Framing Digital Nationalism In Cataloniamentioning

confidence: 85%

The Catalan Digital Republic. A Theoretical Review

Pitroso

2024

JEMIE

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“…First, as an open forum, it is evitable for people to encounter others holding opposite opinions [45]. In a study on conversational interactions about Catalonia's independence on Twitter, it is demonstrated that the conversations across political lines happen more frequently and last significantly longer than the homogenous ones [46]. Chan et al also verify that aggressive contents contributed by political opponents on social media can catalyze anger of the opponents and enhance conflicts.…”

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“…Among the works analyzed for this study, the author finds no paper that specialized in studying subjective approaches, but this kind of approaches are frequently applied in most of the empirical works. Methods that are mentioned included scoring [28,52,73,74], Likert-type scales [27,75], coding [46,76,77], content analysis [78], and classification [79].…”

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Studying opinion polarization on social media

Jiang

2022

Soc Work Soc Welf

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Opinion polarization on social media raises a lot of concerns today. In this study, the author provides a systematic review of publications about the issues since 2013 to show the achievements in the existing research on the topic, to sort out the relevant knowledge, and to provide some inspirations for future research in this area. This paper finds that opinion polarization on social media is initiated by three patterns of factors: increasing the homophily in discussions, increasing conflict in social media discussions, and facilitating the spread of misinformation. It also summarizes the existing findings on how to detect and measure opinion polarization in social media, and comes up with opportunities for further researches on this topic.

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“…GP occurs when group members end up being more extreme in their position on a given issue after participating or being exposed to a discussion [ 1 ]. The influential work of Cass Sunstein identified in online information cocoons created by like-minded individuals [ 2 – 4 ], i.e., a key mechanism of GP, and hypothesized that GP will impoverish public discourse and favor extremism [ 5 ]. How to effectively control the group polarization in emergencies is considered a vital topic for the management of online information disorder and public attitude guidance in emergency crises.…”

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Research on risk assessment model and simulation of online group polarization in emergencies

Lu,

Liu

2024

PLoS ONE

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This study proposes a framework for the risk structure of group polarization in the online information of sudden public health incidents, as well as the causes and constraints of group polarization distributed in the ternary space. Then, combining the above two and based on the concept of phase change space, a simulation model of group polarization of online information in sudden public health incidents was constructed by reflecting the risk of group polarization with the number of network users who hold extreme views. The system dynamics simulation of the model is carried out by using the software Anylogic, and predict the evolution trend of the model from the perspective of simulation. The research results indicate that the model built in this study can effectively simulate the formation and dissemination of extreme opinions in the online public opinion of public health emergencies. The vital factors or constraints on the group polarization include emotional guidance, heat reduction, as well as and life pressure.

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Tweeting on Catalonia’s Independence: The Dynamics of Political Discussion and Group Polarisation

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Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

The Catalan Digital Republic. A Theoretical Review

The Catalan Digital Republic. A Theoretical Review

Studying opinion polarization on social media

Research on risk assessment model and simulation of online group polarization in emergencies

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