Since people on the Internet inform themselves about political events and exchange, but at the latest with the advent of personalization algorithms in search engines and the dissemination of social media platforms, the question arises as to how online communication…
In August 2016, in the middle of the U.S. presidential campaign, there was a rumor that the candidate Hillary Clinton was so poor in health that she would not be fit for the presidency. The news spread very quickly through…
When addressing echo chambers, we may particularly deal with two different matters: Echo chambers and their effects (such as attitude polarization) on the one hand and mechanisms and antecedents (such as selective user behavior) that potentially lead to the formation…
Welcome to our research group’s first blog entry! As the junior research group “Digital Citizenship in Network Technologies” consisting of computer scientists, psychologists, and communication scholars at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany), we are interested in how opinion homogeneity forms…
