{"id":617110,"date":"2019-05-14T10:15:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T14:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=617110"},"modified":"2019-05-14T10:15:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T14:15:10","slug":"new-study-finds-people-are-using-twitter-to-bridge-political-divides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=617110","title":{"rendered":"New study finds people are using Twitter to bridge political divides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given the current atmosphere of political polarization, conventional wisdom suggests that conversations about politics\u2014especially those taking place online\u2014are both unpleasant and unproductive. However, a new study finds the opposite: average citizens are participating in rich and engaging political conversations online that have the potential to bridge divides and push people beyond their information bubble. This study, &#8220;Why Keep Arguing? Predicting Participation in Political Conversations Online,&#8221; was recently published in SAGE Open.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-05-people-twitter-bridge-political.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">New study finds people are using Twitter to bridge political divides<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the current atmosphere of political polarization, conventional wisdom suggests that conversations about politics\u2014especially those taking place online\u2014are both unpleasant and unproductive. However, a new study finds the opposite: average&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}