Two Communities, One Topic: Exploring the British Reddit community split based on perceived biases

Clavie, Benjamin; Moradpoor, Naghmeh

Abstract

This article explores a perceived bias between two British reddit communities dedicated to discussing British politics.We analyse the popular sources favoured by each community and study semantic indicators that would be indicative of a bias. Although we find that the bias does not appear to be as strong as perceived by members of the respective communities, we uncover several indicators of potential political biases between the two communities.

Citation

Clavie, B., & Moradpoor, N. (2018, May). Two Communities, One Topic: Exploring the British Reddit community split based on perceived biases. Poster presented at 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, Amsterdam

• Presentation Conference Type: Poster
• Conference Name: 10th ACM Conference on Web Science
• Start Date: May 27, 2018
• End Date: May 30, 2018
• Deposit Date: Apr 27, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 27, 2018
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3201064
• Keywords: Reddit, online political communication, political biases, polarization, biases perception, social media
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1167476
• Contract Date: Apr 27, 2018