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Through the Grapevine

Socially Transmitted Information and Distorted Democracy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvTaylor N. Carlson

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An enlightening examination of what it means when Americans rely on family and friends to stay on top of politics.Accurate information is at the heart of democratic functioning. For decades, researchers interested in how information is disseminated have focused on mass media, but the reality is that many Americans today do not learn about politics from direct engagement with the news. Rather, about one-third of Americans learn chiefly from information shared by their peers in conversation or on social media. How does this socially transmitted information differ from that communicated by traditional media? What are the consequences for political attitudes and behavior? Drawing on evidence from experiments, surveys, and social media, Taylor N. Carlson finds that, as information flows first from the media then person to person, it becomes sparse, more biased, less accurate, and more mobilizing. The result is what Carlson calls distorted democracy. Although socially transmitted information does not necessarily render democracy dysfunctional, Through the Grapevine shows how it contributes to a public that is at once underinformed, polarized, and engaged.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-07-06
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt367 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieChicago Studies in American Politics
Antal sidor232
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226834153

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"Many citizens learn about politics through conversations with their friends and family. Such engagement can come with a steep cost. In this terrific and meticulously researched book, Carlson argues that interpersonal conversations about politics may do more harm than good. As citizens discuss what they read or hear in media reports, the actual information transmitted through conversation degrades and becomes more partisan in character, more negative in tone, and less accurate in nature."

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