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Conflicting narratives and polarization on social media| title | Conflicting narratives and polarization on social media |
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| start_date | 2025/11/26 |
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| schedule | 17h40 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle W |
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| summary | Narratives are key interpretative devices by which humans make sense of political reality. This work shows how the analysis of conflicting narratives, i.e. conflicting interpretive lenses through which political reality is experienced and told, provides insight into the discursive mechanisms of polarization in the public sphere. Building upon previous work that has structurally identified ideologically polarized issues in the German Twittersphere between 2021 and 2023, we analyze the discursive dimension of polarization by extracting textual signals of conflicting narratives from tweets of opposing opinion groups. Focusing on a selection of salient issues and events (the war in Ukraine, Covid, climate change), the analysis sheds light on the fault lines in the underlying polarized debates by exposing diverging interpretations of political reality. Furthermore, we provide first evidence for meta-narrative patterns that may be at the origin of opinion alignment across issues. |
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| responsibles | Poibeau |
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| submitted | published | | 2025/11/17 14:25 UTC |
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