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Media Polarization on Twitter During 2019 Indonesian Election

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Complex Networks & Their Applications IX (COMPLEX NETWORKS 2020 2020)

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In this study, we investigate the phenomenon of political polarization on news consumption patterns of Twitter users during 2019 Indonesian elections. By modeling news consumption as a bipartite network of news outlets-Twitter users, we observed the emergence of a number of media communities based on audience similarity. By measuring political alignments of each news outlet, we reveal the politically fragmented landscape of Indonesian news media, where each media community becomes an political echo-chamber for its audience. Our findings highlight the important role of mainstream media as a bridge of information between political echo-chamber in social media environment.

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    The dataset used in this study is available in limited form at https://github.com/ardianeff/indomediaelection2019.

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    Ardian Maulana & Hokky Situngkir

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  2. IUT Lumière, University of Lyon, Bron Cedex, France

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  3. LIB, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

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  4. Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos, Departamento de Matematicas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Madrid, Spain

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Maulana, A., Situngkir, H. (2021). Media Polarization on Twitter During 2019 Indonesian Election. In: Benito, R.M., Cherifi, C., Cherifi, H., Moro, E., Rocha, L.M., Sales-Pardo, M. (eds) Complex Networks & Their Applications IX. COMPLEX NETWORKS 2020 2020. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 943. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65347-7_55

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