论文标题
人口混淆导致Facebook上极端的生活方式政治实例
Demographic Confounding Causes Extreme Instances of Lifestyle Politics on Facebook
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论文摘要
当与意识形态没有实质性相关的活动在政治上和两极分化时，生活方式政治就会出现。同质和社会影响能够自行产生这些故障线；但是，人口统计学中的社会身份可能是协调生活方式政治的协调机制。使用来自不同种族/种族，教育，年龄，性别和收入人口统计的用户的299,327个Facebook兴趣的137,661,886个观察数据集，我们发现，生活方式政治的最极端实例是那些被诸如种族/种族等人口统计学的人口统计学的人，例如种族/种族（例如，黑人艺术家，黑人艺术家）。在调整了对人口影响的政治统一后，对政治“中心”的生活方式政治不再是最两极分化的利益。取而代之的是，在人口调整后，我们发现最自由的利益包括电动汽车，计划生育和自由讽刺，而最保守的利益包括共和党和保守的评论员。我们使用一般社会调查来验证政治和生活方式政治的衡量标准，并在社交媒体（例如Facebook）（例如Facebook）之前发现与生活方式政治的类似人口纠缠无处不在，这使我们强烈相信我们的结果并不是由于回声室或过滤泡沫。同样，由于人口特征在意识形态价值观之前存在，因此我们认为我们观察到的人口混乱是我们在汇总利益中发现的极端生活方式政治实例的因果关系。我们将结果与辛普森的悖论，文化杂食和网络自相关联系起来，总结了论文。
Lifestyle politics emerge when activities that have no substantive relevance to ideology become politically aligned and polarized. Homophily and social influence are able generate these fault lines on their own; however, social identities from demographics may serve as coordinating mechanisms through which lifestyle politics are mobilized are spread. Using a dataset of 137,661,886 observations from 299,327 Facebook interests aggregated across users of different racial/ethnic, education, age, gender, and income demographics, we find that the most extreme instances of lifestyle politics are those which are highly confounded by demographics such as race/ethnicity (e.g., Black artists and performers). After adjusting political alignment for demographic effects, lifestyle politics decreased by 27.36% toward the political "center" and demographically confounded interests were no longer among the most polarized interests. Instead, after demographic deconfounding, we found that the most liberal interests included electric cars, Planned Parenthood, and liberal satire while the most conservative interests included the Republican Party and conservative commentators. We validate our measures of political alignment and lifestyle politics using the General Social Survey and find similar demographic entanglements with lifestyle politics existed before social media such as Facebook were ubiquitous, giving us strong confidence that our results are not due to echo chambers or filter bubbles. Likewise, since demographic characteristics exist prior to ideological values, we argue that the demographic confounding we observe is causally responsible for the extreme instances of lifestyle politics that we find among the aggregated interests. We conclude our paper by relating our results to Simpson's paradox, cultural omnivorousness, and network autocorrelation.
