{"id":16702,"date":"2015-08-27T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=16702"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:31:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T07:31:09","slug":"political-polarization-on-twitter-depends-on-the-issue-phys-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/political-polarization-on-twitter-depends-on-the-issue-phys-org","title":{"rendered":"Political polarization on Twitter depends on the issue | Phys.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/politicalpol.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201cTo some extent, social media platforms can promote democratic deliberation and the exchange of ideas from different perspectives,\u201d says Barber\u00e1. \u201cEven for the most divisive topics, such as the 2012 presidential election, we did not see a perfect division on Twitter \u2014 while people may encounter political views that they agree with, they\u2019ll encounter divergent opinions as well.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-08-political-polarization-twitter-issue.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u201cTo some extent, social media platforms can promote democratic deliberation and the exchange of ideas from different perspectives,\u201d says Barber\u00e1. \u201cEven for the most divisive topics, such as the 2012 presidential election, we did not see a perfect division on Twitter \u2014 while people may encounter political views that they agree with, they\u2019ll encounter divergent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[513],"class_list":["post-16702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51454,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16702\/revisions\/51454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}