The political blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. election: divided they blog
Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Link discovery
A face(book) in the crowd: social Searching vs. social browsing
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Blogging, Citizenship and the Future of Media
Blogging, Citizenship and the Future of Media
Human-Computer Interaction
Blogs are Echo Chambers: Blogs are Echo Chambers
HICSS '09 Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Republic.com 2.0
Tweet the debates: understanding community annotation of uncollected sources
WSM '09 Proceedings of the first SIGMM workshop on Social media
Presenting diverse political opinions: how and how much
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Computing political preference among twitter followers
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The role of social networks in information diffusion
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web
The post that wasn't: exploring self-censorship on facebook
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Is news sharing on Twitter ideologically biased?
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
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This paper reports on a qualitative study of social media use for political deliberation by 21 U.S. citizens. In observing people's interactions in the "sprawling public sphere" across multiple social media tools in both political and non-political spaces, we found that social media supported the interactional dimensions of deliberative democracy--the interaction with media and the interaction between people. People used multiple tools through which they: were serendipitously exposed to diverse political information, constructed diverse information feeds, disseminated diverse information, and engaged in respectful and reasoned political discussions with diverse audiences. When people's civic agency was inhibited when using a tool, they often adopted, or switched to, alternative media that could afford what they were trying to achieve. Contrary to the polarization perspective, we find that people were purposefully seeking diverse information and discussants. Some individuals altered their views as a result of the interactions they were having in the online public sphere.