Though political discussion amongst citizens is central in democracy, little known about what triggers informal discussions and through which pathways. This article argues that gain knowledge politics when they are exposed to conflict the news media this may encourage them participate more conditioned by their orientation towards due potential interpersonal conflict. The indirect effect argued ...

We present an approach to mining online forums for figurative language such as metaphor. We target in particular online discussions within the illness and the political conflict domains, with a view to constructing corpora of Metaphor in Illness Discussion, and Metaphor in Political Conflict Discussion. This paper reports on our ongoing efforts to combine manual and automatic detection strategi...

Is political agreement in social networks the product of selection or influence? We investigate this question using the first large, general population sample survey to track changes in the political discussion