Outnumbered Online: An Experiment on Partisan Imbalance in a Dynamic Social Media Environment

• In Event: Experiments in Political Communication

Brief Overview

We conducted an experiment via a mobile application that we developed to simulate a social media platform. We show that being outnumbered by out-partisans (secretly chatbots) shapes comfort sharing opinions and evaluations of the online environment.

Authors

• Maxwell B. Allamong, Duke University

• Andrew Trexler, Duke University