Fandom and polarization in online political discussion : from pop culture to politics / Renee Barnes.
Barnes, Renee, author.
2022
HM742
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Title Fandom and polarization in online political discussion : from pop culture to politics / Renee Barnes.
Author Barnes, Renee, author.
ISBN 9783031140396 (electronic bk.)
3031140397 (electronic bk.)
3031140389
9783031140389
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14039-6
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-14039-6 doi
Call Number HM742
Dewey Decimal Classification 302.23/1
Summary This book takes an innovative fan studies approach to investigating one of the most pressing issues of contemporary times: polarization. Drawing on three years of observational data from Facebook political discussions, as well as interviews and survey responses from those heavily engaged in online political debate, Barnes argues a fan-like investment in a political perspective initiates and drives polarization. She calls on us to move beyond the traditional Habermasian approach to political discussion, which privileges the rational and deliberative, and instead focus on how we perform the self. How we behave in these online debates is part of a performance, a performance of self, in which an affective investment in a particular political perspective drives a need to contribute, refute and other those opposing. Because this performance stems from an emotional basis, judgments and contributions are often not rational or factual, but rather a form of establishing and defending an identity. Renne Barnes is senior lecturer in Journalism at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia.
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FANDOM AND POLARIZATION IN ONLINE POLITICAL DISCUSSION.
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Introduction
Part 1 The missing link: Fandom and anti-fandom and polarized political discussion
Chap 1 Polarization and online debate: Getting down in the muck
Chap 2 - Fan studies and polarization: Finding the fan and anti-fan
Part 2: Fandom, politics and online debate
Chap 3 Fandom fuelling polarized behaviour: Loving to hate
Chap 4 Can we debate away the hate?
Part 3 Anti fandom and the rise of the fake news phenomenon
Chap 5 Fake news, polarization and anti-fandom
Chap 6 - Examining the use of the fake news label in online political discussion: Believing the fake:
Chap 7 Conclusion.

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