What Makes People Join Conspiracy Communities?
نویسندگان
چکیده
Widespread conspiracy theories, like those motivating anti-vaccination attitudes or climate change denial, propel collective action, and bear society-wide consequences. Yet, empirical research has largely studied theory adoption as an individual pursuit, rather than a socially mediated process. What makes users join communities endorsing spreading theories? We leverage longitudinal data from 56 on Reddit to compare social factors determining which the communities. Using quasi-experimental approach, we first identify 30K future conspiracists?(FC) and30K matched non-conspiracists?(NC). then provide evidence of importance across six dimensions relative by analyzing 6 million comments posts. Specifically, in factors, find that dyadic interactions with members marginalization outside are most important precursors joining-even outperforming factor baselines. Our results offer quantitative backing understand processes echo chamber effects conspiratorial engagement, implications for democratic institutions online
منابع مشابه
What makes people click?
Mysterious culture: Some online social networks evolve a distinct culture and iconography, like ancient Egypt, only more rapidly. (Photo: Guillaume Lelarge/Wikimedia Commons.) A mysterious new culture has been born. “We are like ancient Egyptians. We communicate with pictures, we worship cats, and nobody understands us.” This paraphrases a post that was reblogged many thousands of times on the ...
متن کاملThinking together: What makes Communities of Practice work?
In this article, we develop the founding elements of the concept of Communities of Practice by elaborating on the learning processes happening at the heart of such communities. In particular, we provide a consistent perspective on the notions of knowledge, knowing and knowledge sharing that is compatible with the essence of this concept - that learning entails an investment of identity and a so...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer interaction
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2573-0142']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3432922