The political blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. election: divided they blog
Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Link discovery
Friends and foes: ideological social networking
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Predicting tie strength with social media
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Republic.com 2.0
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Presenting diverse political opinions: how and how much
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Social capital on facebook: differentiating uses and users
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Normative influences on thoughtful online participation
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
How and to whom people share: the role of culture in self-disclosure in online communities
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Supporting reflective public thought with considerit
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
The post that wasn't: exploring self-censorship on facebook
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
What's congress doing on twitter?
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Using facebook after losing a job: differential benefits of strong and weak ties
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
"I'd have to vote against you": issue campaigning via twitter
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work companion
Political blend: an application designed to bring people together based on political differences
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
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Most people associate with people like themselves, a process called homophily. Exposure to diversity, however, makes us more informed as individuals and as a society. In this paper, we investigate political disagreements on Facebook to explore the conditions under which diverse opinions can coexist online. Via a mixed methods approach comprising 103 survey responses and 13 interviews with politically engaged American social media users, we found that participants who perceived more differences with their friends engaged less on Facebook than those who perceived more homogeneity. Weak ties were particularly brittle to political disagreements, despite being the ties most likely to offer diversity. Finally, based on our findings we suggest potential design opportunities to bridge across ideological difference: 1) support exposure to weak ties; and 2) make common ground visible while friends converse.