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2023 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Cognitive Cascades within Media Ecosystems: Simulating Fragmentation, Selective Exposure and Media Tactics to Investigate Polarization

verfasst von : Nicholas Rabb, Lenore Cowen

Erschienen in: Complex Networks and Their Applications XI

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This work introduces a simple extension to the recent Cognitive Cascades model of Rabb et al. with modeling of multiple media agents, to begin to investigate how the media ecosystem might influence the spread of beliefs (such as beliefs around COVID-19 vaccination). We perform some initial simulations to see how parameters modeling audience fragmentation, selective exposure, and responsiveness of media agents to the beliefs of their subscribers influence polarization. We find that media ecosystem fragmentation and echo-chambers may not in themselves be as polarizing as initially postulated, in the absence of outside fixed media messages that are polarizing.

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Metadaten
Titel
Cognitive Cascades within Media Ecosystems: Simulating Fragmentation, Selective Exposure and Media Tactics to Investigate Polarization
verfasst von
Nicholas Rabb
Lenore Cowen
Copyright-Jahr
2023
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21127-0_1

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