The Online Market's Invisible Hand: Internet Media and Rising Populism.
Given the recent surge of global populism, this article explores the relationship between Internet/social media and support for populist parties by focusing on the structure of the online marketplace. We argue that structure shapes digital networks' incentives in terms of the content they favor, and...
| Publicado en: | Political Studies Vol. 71; no. 3; pp. 655 - 676 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Aug2023
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