{"id":3791,"date":"2024-04-22T08:15:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T00:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/?p=3791"},"modified":"2024-04-22T09:45:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T01:45:50","slug":"social-media-is-sabotaging-internet-democracy-by-giving-a-voice-to-ignorance-and-bigotry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/onsc\/3791\/social-media-is-sabotaging-internet-democracy-by-giving-a-voice-to-ignorance-and-bigotry\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media is sabotaging internet democracy by giving a voice to ignorance and bigotry"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\"Democracy and ignorance mesh together like Mentos and Coca-cola...\" (Credits: Shay Horse\/Getty Images)\r\n&nbsp;\r\nAbstract:\r\nThe internet had always been a paradox between freedom of speech, expression and tolerance pitted against bigotry and misinformation. With the widespread use of social media, this paradox is brought to its peak, a curious (yet unsurprising) phenomenon analyzed through this thesis that focuses on the behaviour of Trump supporters, their roles and misuse of Social media <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/onsc\/3791\/social-media-is-sabotaging-internet-democracy-by-giving-a-voice-to-ignorance-and-bigotry\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Democracy and ignorance mesh together like Mentos and Coca-cola&#8230;&#8221; (Credits: Shay Horse\/Getty Images) &nbsp; Abstract: The internet had always been a paradox between freedom of speech, expression and tolerance pitted against bigotry and misinformation. With the widespread use of social media, this paradox is brought to its peak, a curious (yet unsurprising) phenomenon analyzed through this thesis that focuses on the behaviour of Trump supporters, their roles and misuse of Social media &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[560,891,573,572,571,478,892,766],"class_list":["post-3791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onsc","tag-authoritarianism","tag-freedomofexpression","tag-onlineconference","tag-onlinenetworksandsocialchange","tag-smcn2024","tag-socialmedia","tag-trumpets","tag-populism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3791"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3854,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions\/3854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}