To Like or Not To Like? An Experimental Exploration of Conformity and Polarization in Online Social Media Networks

• In Event: Experiments on the Spread of Information

Brief Overview

In this study, I use an experiment to explore how social cues of crowd sentiment available on social media networks condition perceptions of story credibility, tendencies to conform to the majority opinion, and affective partisan polarization.

Author

• Alexander W Severson, Boise State University