News Consumption of Russian Vkontakte Users: Polarization and News Avoidance

IF 1.9 3区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

International Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2019-10-13 DOI:10.7892/BORIS.142408

Aleksandra Urman

引用次数: 9

Abstract

This study explores the patterns of news consumption of Russian users of Vkontakte, the most popular social media platform in Russia, based on a sample of 55,344 users. The analysis is conducted via a combination of network analysis techniques. It demonstrates that the majority of Vkontakte users do not subscribe to news sources, demonstrating that there is a politically apathetic majority and news-interested minority. And news subscribers are polarized along political lines. There is a distinct group of users who subscribe to pro-opposition-leaning politicized sources more than other users do. This study builds on research on polarization, selective exposure, and the role of social media in authoritarian regimes. It provides new empirical evidence on the way that selective exposure and polarization manifest themselves on a non-Western platform in an authoritarian state.

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俄罗斯Vkontakte用户的新闻消费:极化与新闻回避

本研究基于55,344名用户的样本，探讨了俄罗斯最受欢迎的社交媒体平台Vkontakte的俄罗斯用户的新闻消费模式。分析是通过网络分析技术的组合进行的。这表明大多数Vkontakte用户不订阅新闻来源，这表明大多数人对政治漠不关心，少数人对新闻感兴趣。新闻订阅者在政治上是两极化的。有一个独特的用户群体，他们比其他用户更多地订阅亲反对派倾向的政治来源。这项研究建立在对两极分化、选择性曝光和社交媒体在威权政权中的作用的研究基础上。它提供了新的经验证据，说明选择性曝光和两极分化是如何在专制国家的非西方平台上表现出来的。

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