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  title info:
    title: Through the grapevine
    sub title: socially transmitted information and distorted democracy
  name:
    name part: Carlson, Taylor N.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Accurate information about politics is at the heart of democratic functioning. For decades, those concerned with the information environment have understandably focused on mass media, but many Americans do not learn about politics from direct engagement with the news. Indeed, about one-third of Americans learn about politics from socially transmitted information they acquire from conversations with others and social media. How does socially transmitted information differ from information communicated by mass media? And what are the consequences for political behavior? Drawing on evidence from experiments, surveys and Twitter, Taylor Carlson finds that, as information flows from the media to 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, it does contribute to a public that is at once underinformed, polarized and engaged.
  table of contents: How political conversations change the information environment -- Distorted democracy -- Conceptual and empirical measurement -- Distortion -- Underinformed -- Polarized -- Engaged -- Distorted or dysfunctional?
  note: Taylor N. Carlson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Politics in social media
  subject:
    topic: Social networks
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Online social networks
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Political psychology
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Misinformation
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Misinformation
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
    geographic: United States
  classification: PN4565.P65 C37 2024
  classification: 302.302850973
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Chicago studies in American politics
  identifier: 9780226834153
  identifier: 0226834158
  identifier: 9780226834177
  identifier: 0226834174
  identifier: 9780226834160
  identifier: 2023046438
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 231004
    record change date: 20240909203402.6
    record identifier: in00005468123