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Losing Friends Over Politics: The Relationship Between Dysfunctional Online Activities And Social Sanctions On Whatsapp And Facebook

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Keynote Speakers

Category:

Manipulation and Polarization

Place:

Online 3

Date and time:

13:00 to 13:30 on 09/04/2020

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This talk sheds light on how dysfunctional online behaviors may affect relationships by investigating social sanctions — actively blocking, unfriending, and quitting social media because of politics. There is limited research investigating how people’s online experiences may lead to social sanctions. Taking a comparative approach, I also examine the extent to which the dynamics around social sanctions are sensitive to different platform affordances, comparing Facebook and WhatsApp.

Keynote Speaker

Patricia Rossini

Patricia Rossini

University of Liverpool

Patricia Rossini (Ph.D, Federal University of Minas Gerais) is a Derby Fellow in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool, UK. She was previously a postdoctoral researcher in the iSchool at Syracuse University, USA. Her research focuses on online political talk, uncivil discourse, digital campaigns, computational methods, and deliberation. She is the lead investigator of a research project funded by WhatsApp to study misinformation in Brazil, co-principal investigator in a project to devise metrics to assess conversational health, funded by Twitter, and co-PI of a comparative research project funded by Facebook to study visual misinformation on social media and mobile messaging apps in eight countries across five continents. Her work has been published by Social Media+Society, Political Studies, the International Journal of Communication, the Journal of Information, Technology & Politics, and the Journal of Public Deliberation.

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