{"id":5557,"date":"2025-04-27T17:53:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T09:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5557"},"modified":"2025-04-28T09:45:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T01:45:37","slug":"social-medias-contribution-to-the-polarisation-of-political-ideologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/onsc\/5557\/social-medias-contribution-to-the-polarisation-of-political-ideologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media\u2019s contribution to the polarisation of political ideologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/political-polarization-drivers-500x288-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft autoexcerpt_thumb  wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/>\nAbstract\n\n\n\nThe following paper explores how the global adoption of social media as a source of political news and discussion has impacted the polarisation and separation of people with opposing political ideologies and will investigate the mechanism through which this is actioned. This paper argues that social media does contribute to the intensity of political opinion and inhibits the liklihood a platforms userbase will seek out and explore information with opposing ideals. It will also define <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/onsc\/5557\/social-medias-contribution-to-the-polarisation-of-political-ideologies\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract The following paper explores how the global adoption of social media as a source of political news and discussion has impacted the polarisation and separation of people with opposing political ideologies and will investigate the mechanism through which this is actioned. This paper argues that social media does contribute to the intensity of political opinion and inhibits the liklihood a platforms userbase will seek out and explore information with opposing ideals. It will also define &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":571,"featured_media":5580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-onsc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5557"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5850,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557\/revisions\/5850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}