Twitter and Electoral Bias
Twitter and Electoral Bias
In this chapter, the authors introduce functional criteria along Habermasian lines for the role of public spheres in a healthy democracy and apply research from the use of Twitter during the last German general election to describe the influence (or lack thereof) of social media on the electoral process. In particular, the authors discuss the workings of various digital divides and highlight their impact on online participation in these elections.
Keywords: Deliberative Democracy, Digital Divide, Election, Habermas, Politics, Social Media, Twitter
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