scholarly journals Online Intergroup Polarization Across Political Fault Lines: An Integrative Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana-Maria Bliuc ◽  
Ayoub Bouguettaya ◽  
Kallam D. Felise
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Collective Narratives ◽  
Collective Self ◽  
Fault Lines

We revisit the construct of political polarization and current distinctions between issue-driven and affective polarization. Based on our review of recent research on polarization from psychology, political science, and communication, we propose to treat polarization as a process that integrates the concepts of social identification (collective self-definition) with ideologically opposed camps - that is, psychological groups based on support or opposition to specific socio-political issues and policies (related to issue-driven polarization), and that of ideological and psychological distancing between groups (related to affective polarization). Furthermore, we discuss the foundations of polarizing groups – and more specifically, the role of conflicting collective narratives about social reality in providing an initial platform for polarization in a technologically networked world. In particular, we highlight the importance of online media in facilitating and enhancing polarization between ideologically opposed camps. As a theoretical contribution, the review provides a more functional conceptualization of polarization that can explain how polarization may occur across partisan fault lines and in domains outside of politics. We conclude with a discussion of new pathways to the study of polarization which this integrative conceptualization opens.

scholarly journals Pembingkaian Isu Politik ‘Tampang Boyolali’ oleh Media Online Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-154
Author(s):  
Mugiarjo Mugiarjo
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgement ◽  
Moral Judgments ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Treatment Recommendation ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Political Issues

This study aims to present how two Indonesian online media, Mojok.co and Tirto.id, try to act as mediators when political issues shift from substance to cheesy issues that only amplify political polarization. Researchers analyzed five news in each medium using Robert N. Entman’s framing framework including defining problems, diagnosing causes, making moral judgments, and recommendations for treatment. We found there were quality journalism practiced by Mojok.co and Tirto.id for writing good stories. These two didn’t follow ‘quote journalism’ that often performed by online media in Indonesia. This is an example how online media still give some hopes for balancing democracy as their purpose as social controller.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menyajikan bagaimana dua media online Indonesia yaitu Mojok.co dan Tirto.id alternatif berupaya menjadi penengah di saat isu politik bergeser dari hal yang substansi menjadi isu gorengan yang hanya mempertebal polarisasi. Peneliti menganalisis lima berita di masing-masing media menggunakan kerangka framing Robert N. Entman meliputi define problems, diagnose causes, make moral judgement, dan treatment recommendation. Hasil penelitian menegaskan pembingkaian yang dilakukan oleh Mojok.co dan Tirto.id menunjukkan adanya praktik jurnalisme yang bermutu dengan tidak larut dalam praktik media online yang mengandalkan kecepatan tetapi justru larut dalam pusaran isu populer sehingga hanya melakukan jurnalisme ‘kutipan’. Hal ini menjadi alternatif baru bagi media-media online untuk kembali menempatkan jurnalisme sebagai penyampai berita dan kontrol sosial, bukan sekadar mengutip pernyataan narasumber.

Contributions of Contemporary Political Science to an Understanding of the Common Good

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.J. Matthew Carnes
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Scientific Theory ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
Politics And Government ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common ◽  
Nature And Society

The transformation of political science in recent decades opens the door for a new but so far poorly cultivated examination of the common good. Four significant “turns” characterize the modern study of politics and government. Each is rooted in the discipline’s increased emphasis on empirical rigor, with its attendant scientific theory-building, measurement, and hypothesis testing. Together, these new orientations allow political science to enrich our understanding of causality, our basic definitions of the common good, and our view of human nature and society. In particular, the chapter suggests that traditional descriptions of the common good in Catholic theology have been overly irenic and not sufficiently appreciative of the role of contention in daily life, on both a national and international scale.

Inside the Enemy's Computer

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clement Guitton
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Technical Problem ◽  
Technical Information ◽  
Cyber Attack ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
Standards Of Evidence

Attribution — tracing those responsible for a cyber attack — is of primary importance when classifying it as a criminal act, an act of war, or an act of terrorism. Three assumptions dominate current thinking: attribution is a technical problem; it is unsolvable; and it is unique. Approaching attribution as a problem forces us to consider it either as solved or unsolved. Yet attribution is far more nuanced, and is best approached as a process in constant flux, driven by judicial and political pressures. In the criminal context, courts must assess the guilt of criminals, mainly based on technical evidence. In the national security context, decision-makers must analyze unreliable and mainly non-technical information in order to identify an enemy of the state. Attribution in both contexts is political: in criminal cases, laws reflect society’s prevailing norms and powers; in national security cases, attribution reflects a state’s will to maintain, increase or assert its power. However, both processes differ on many levels. The constraints, which reflect common aspects of many other political issues, constitute the structure of the book: the need for judgment calls, the role of private companies, the standards of evidence, the role of time, and the plausible deniability of attacks.

Case study 2

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewan Ferlie ◽  
Sue Dopson ◽  
Chris Bennett ◽  
Michael D. Fischer ◽  
Jean Ledger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Significant Potential ◽  
Key Stakeholders

This chapter analyses the role of think tanks in generating a distinctive mode of policy knowledge, pragmatically orientated to inform and shape issues of importance to civil society. Drawing on political science literature, we argue that think tanks exploit niche areas of expertise and influence to actively mobilize policy analyses and recommendations across diverse stakeholders. Through our exploratory mapping of think tanks, geographically concentrated within London, we characterize their influence as significantly boosting knowledge intensity across the regional ecosystem. In particular, we study the empirical case of one London-based think tank which powerfully mobilized policy knowledge through its formal and informal networks to build influential expert consensus amongst key stakeholders. We conclude that such organizations act as key knowledge producers and mobilizers, with significant potential to influence policy discourses and implementation.

A New Hope

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoran Oklopcic
Keyword(s):  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
The People ◽  
Collective Self ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

As the final chapter of the book, Chapter 10 confronts the limits of an imagination that is constitutional and constituent, as well as (e)utopian—oriented towards concrete visions of a better life. In doing so, the chapter confronts the role of Square, Triangle, and Circle—which subtly affect the way we think about legal hierarchy, popular sovereignty, and collective self-government. Building on that discussion, the chapter confronts the relationship between circularity, transparency, and iconography of ‘paradoxical’ origins of democratic constitutions. These representations are part of a broader morphology of imaginative obstacles that stand in the way of a more expansive constituent imagination. The second part of the chapter focuses on the most important five—Anathema, Nebula, Utopia, Aporia, and Tabula—and closes with the discussion of Ernst Bloch’s ‘wishful images’ and the ways in which manifold ‘diagrams of hope and purpose’ beyond the people may help make them attractive again.

The Energy Politics of the United States

2020 ◽  
pp. 371-405
Author(s):  
Juliann Emmons Allison ◽  
Srinivas Parinandi
Keyword(s):  
Energy Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Energy Politics ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
Subnational Governance

This chapter examines the development and politics of US energy policy, with an emphasis on three themes: the distribution of authority to regulate energy between national (or federal) and subnational governments, the relationship between energy and environmental policy and regulation, and the role of climate action in energy politics. It reviews patterns of energy production and consumption; provides an overview of national energy politics; and reviews literatures on federalism and energy politics and policy, the increasing integration of energy and environmental policies, and the politics of energy and climate action. The chapter concludes with a discussion of a future research agenda that underscores the significance of political polarization, subnational governance, and technological innovation for understanding US energy policy.

scholarly journals #(Me)too much? The role of sexualizing online media in adolescents’ resistance towards the metoo-movement and acceptance of rape myths

2019 ◽  
Vol 77 ◽  
pp. 59-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chelly Maes ◽  
Lara Schreurs ◽  
Johanna M.F. van Oosten ◽  
Laura Vandenbosch
Keyword(s):  
Rape Myths ◽  
Online Media
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