Date of Award
Spring 5-4-2022
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Political Science
First Advisor
Toby Bolsen
Second Advisor
Judd Thornton
Third Advisor
Sarah Allen Gershon
Abstract
Social media serves as a way for people to connect. People can choose who they connect with, this can cause echo chambers to appear online and can also cause in/out groups to become present. This thesis will examine echo chambers and in/out groups using a content analysis of comments on news media posts on Facebook. The two issues being examined are abortion and immigration. We will be looking at three news media pages: Fox News, MSNBC, and ABC News. What the content analysis will seek out to find is that the partisan news sources Fox News and MSNBC will have echo chambers of information and will attack a person of the out-group if they comment. These echo chambers and in/out-group behaviors could lead to other problems such as polarization.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/28909764
Recommended Citation
Parsons, Jacob, "A Content Analysis: Examining Facebook Comments on News Media Posts For Echo Chambers." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2022.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/28909764
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