Drawing from many disciplines, the report adopts a behavioural psychology perspective to argue that “social media changes people’s political behaviour”. Four pressure points are identified and analysed in detail: the attention economy; choice architectures; algorithmic content curation; and mis/disinformation. Policy implications are outlined in detail.
LEWANDOWSKY Stephan;
SMILLIE Laura;
GARCIA David;
HERTWIG Ralph;
WEATHERALL Jim;
EGIDY Stefanie;
ROBERTSON Ronald E.;
O’CONNOR Cailin;
KOZYREVA Anastasia;
LORENZ-SPREEN Philipp;
BLASCHKE Yannic;
LEISER Mark;
European Commission: Joint Research Centre, LEWANDOWSKY, S., SMILLIE, L., GARCIA, D., HERTWIG, R., WEATHERALL, J., EGIDY, S., ROBERTSON, R.E., O’CONNOR, C., KOZYREVA, A., LORENZ-SPREEN, P., BLASCHKE, Y. and LEISER, M., Technology and Democracy: Understanding the influence of online technologies on political behaviour and decision-making, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2020, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/593478, JRC122023.
2020-10-27
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC122023
978-92-76-24088-4 (online),
978-92-76-24089-1 (print),
978-92-76-40796-6,
1831-9424 (online),
1018-5593 (print),
1831-9424,
EUR 30422 EN,
OP KJ-NA-30422-EN-N (online),
OP KJ-NA-30422-EN-C (print),
OP KJ-NA-30422-EN-E,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC122023,
10.2760/709177 (online),
10.2760/593478 (print),
10.2760/322964,
