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Deadline: January 21, 2023
A special issue of Societies
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Dear Colleagues,
The technologies applied in our digital society, especially on social media, have changed multiple factors of political communication and citizen participation. The construction of political reality is expressed, in addition to video politics, in terms such as cyber politics, which incorporates phenomena such as the acquisition of accidental information or consumption on second screens. This has special consequences both for electoral campaigns and for the strategies of political parties. In addition, citizens have more opportunities to participate and to mobilize, and this fact influences the perception of political events and democracy. Several investigations have shown that the consumption of political information via social media causes polarization and radicalization in audiences, especially in imperfect democracies.
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