联系民主：对抗政治分裂的新途径

IF 5.5 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI:10.1177/20563051251330390

Gina M. Masullo, Martin J. Riedl

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本期特刊探讨了连接民主，这是一种对抗和理解政治两极分化和网络分裂的新理论方法。结缔性民主要求学者们思考弥合社会和政治分歧的解决方案，尤其是在社交媒体上。我们收集的六篇文章将关联民主理论化，并将理论概念应用于全球形势，例如在缅甸培育言论自由和在智利讨论新宪法。本期特刊中的文章还探讨了结缔性民主如何有助于理解当前与两极分化相关的问题，如错误信息和在线尖刻言论，以及社交媒体支持如何支持结缔性民主。这些工作有助于我们理解如何应对当今民主面临的最具挑战性的问题之一，即猖獗的两极分化和网络分裂。

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Connective Democracy: A New Approach to Fighting Political Divisiveness

This special issue explores connective democracy, a new theoretical approach to fighting and understanding political polarization and divisiveness online. Connective democracy asks scholars to think about solutions that bridge societal and political divides, particularly on social media. Our collection of six articles theorizes connective democracy and applies the theoretical concept to global situations, such as nurturing freedom of speech in Myanmar (Burma) and discussions of a new constitution in Chile. The articles in this special issue also consider how connective democracy is useful for understanding current problems related to polarization, such as misinformation and online vitriol, as well as how social media affordances support connective democracy. This body of work contributes to our understanding of how to deal with one of the most challenging problems facing democracy today, rampant polarization and divisiveness online.

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来源期刊

Social Media + Society COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

9.20

自引率

3.80%

发文量

111

审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Media + Society is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on the socio-cultural, political, psychological, historical, economic, legal and policy dimensions of social media in societies past, contemporary and future. We publish interdisciplinary work that draws from the social sciences, humanities and computational social sciences, reaches out to the arts and natural sciences, and we endorse mixed methods and methodologies. The journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies. The editorial vision of Social Media + Society draws inspiration from research on social media to outline a field of study poised to reflexively grow as social technologies evolve. We foster the open access of sharing of research on the social properties of media, as they manifest themselves through the uses people make of networked platforms past and present, digital and non. The journal presents a collaborative, open, and shared space, dedicated exclusively to the study of social media and their implications for societies. It facilitates state-of-the-art research on cutting-edge trends and allows scholars to focus and track trends specific to this field of study.