Discussing God: The Effect of (Ir)Religious Identities on Topic-Sentiment Polarization in Online Debates

Amidst growing societal tensions, social media platforms become hubs of heated intergroup exchanges. According to social identity theory, group membership and the value we assign to it drive the expression of intergroup bias. Within the blooming scholarship on social and political polarization onlin...

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Main Author: Grigoropoulou, Nikolitsa (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publications [2020]
In: Review of religious research
Year: 2020, Volume: 62, Issue: 4, Pages: 533-561
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Religious identity / Irreligiosity / Existence of God / Online community / Discussion / Polarisation
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
CB Christian life; spirituality
CH Christianity and Society
NBC Doctrine of God
Further subjects:B Interreligious bias
B Online communications
B Polarization
B Social Identity Theory
B Text analytics
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