Dynamic Debates: An Analysis of Group Polarization over Time on Twitter

Sarita Yardi; danah boyd

Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society Vol. 30, No. 5 (October 2010) pp. 316–327

The principle of homophily says that people associate with other groups of people who are mostly like themselves. Many online communities are structured around groups of socially similar individuals. On Twitter, however, people are exposed to...