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How did we get here? The consequences of deceit in addressing political polarization

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dc.contributor.authorNoguera-Vivo, José Manuel
dc.contributor.authorPérez Escolar, Marta
dc.contributor.departmentComunicación
dc.contributor.editorNoguera-Vivo, José Manuel
dc.contributor.editorPérez-Escolar, Marta
dc.contributor.otherFacultad de Comunicación y Documentación
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-23T08:20:06Z
dc.date.available2026-02-23T08:20:06Z
dc.date.copyright© 2021 Marta Pérez-Escolar, José Manuel Noguera-Vivo
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThe main contribution of this chapter is to study the central role information disorders play in political polarization; in concrete, the objective of this chapter is to illustrate how Spanish political elites – parties and politicians – feed radical ghettos and polarized groups, when distributing lies and fabricated stories on the Internet. For this purpose, we have applied a qualitative methodology, consisting of the case study method, to understand the potential impact of both – political polarization and false content – on the weakened quality of the Spanish democracy. The selected cases include the most popular political parties in Spain: PSOE, PP, Vox, Unidas Podemos and Ciudadanos. As we have demonstrated, political parties in Spain spread both, misinformation and disinformation. We confirm that political parties contribute to increase political polarization when they spread fabricated stories. This results in what we call diversification of polarization, which refers to people becoming isolated in multiple bubble cyber-ghettos depending upon the nature of the issue under debate, i.e. inequality between sexes, climate change, immigration issues, the high prices of rent or the Catalonian independence movement, among other examples. As a consequence, the act of lying increases the diversification of polarization and reduces the possibilities of achieving consensus.
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dc.identifier.citationPérez-Escolar, Marta & Noguera-Vivo, José Manuel (2021). How did we get here? The consequences of deceit in addressing political polarization. En Marta Pérez-Escolar & José Manuel Noguera-Vivo (eds.), Hate Speech and Polarization in Participatory Society (pp. 15–32). Routledge.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781003109891
dc.identifier.eisbn9781003109891
dc.identifier.isbn9780367626013
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/209861
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group
dc.relation'La polarización del debate político en las redes sociales. Participación ciudadana y encuadres informativos en los discursos del odio' (referencia PMAFI-10/19), financiado por el Plan Propio de Apoyo a la Investigación UCAM.
dc.relation.ispartofHate Speech and Polarization in Participatory Society, Ed.:Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 15-32
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectDisinformation
dc.subjectHate speech
dc.subjectMedia studies
dc.subjectParticipation
dc.subjectPolarization
dc.subject.odsObjetivo 4: Educación
dc.subject.odsObjetivo 12: Producción y consumo sostenibles
dc.subject.odsObjetivo 16: Paz y justicia
dc.subject.odsObjetivo 10: Reducir las desigualdades entre países y dentro de ellos
dc.titleHow did we get here? The consequences of deceit in addressing political polarization
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