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Media Environment, Dual Process and Polarization: A Computational Approach

Social and Information Networks 2019-06-18 v1

Abstract

News articles of varying degrees of truthfulness and political alignment, and their influences on the political opinions of the media consumers are modeled as a Bayesian network incorporating a mixture of ideas from dual-reasoning models of Motivated Reasoning and Analytic/Intuitive Reasoning. The result shows that as the media environment moves towards the Post-Truth world, the problem of political polarization becomes exacerbated.

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@article{arxiv.1906.06531,
  title  = {Media Environment, Dual Process and Polarization: A Computational Approach},
  author = {In-Ho Yi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.06531},
  year   = {2019}
}
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