Social Media and Digital Politics : Networked Reason in an Age of Digital Emotion / James Jaehoon Lee and Jeffrey Layne Blevins.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- SECTION I: Theoretical and Social Foundations -- 1. Introduction -- Why Social Network Analysis? -- Outline of Our Analysis -- 2. The Digital Body Politic -- Digital Politics and Affective Polarization -- Reason, Knowledge, and Affective Politics -- What about the Role of News Media in Digital Spaces? -- Rhetoric, Public Discourse, and the Body Politic -- Learning from History: How the Language of Reason and Emotion Shape the Body Politic -- SECTION II: Networked Insights -- 3. Defining the Marketplace of Reason and Rage: Rhetorical Analysis, Social Network Structure, and Natural Language Processing -- A History of Social Network Analysis: Sociograms, Weak Ties, and Network Science -- Social Media and Measuring Sentiment in Language -- The Language of Emotion and Reason Shapes Network Structure: Combining Machine Learning and Social Network Analysis -- 4. Rhetoric, Reason, and Emotion in a Network Space -- The Language of Reason and Logical Proof -- Citing Data -- Using Logic to Develop Multi-step Arguments -- Emotion, Rage, and Race -- Direct Citation of Emotions -- False Comparison and Provocation -- Exaggeration and Absurdity -- Humor and Ridicule -- SECTION III: Our New Networked Politics -- 5. Critical Analysis of Digital Discourse -- Reason and Science -- Truth and Post-truth -- Post-truth and Epistemological Crisis -- Affective Politics and Polarization -- 6. News, the Battle for Truth, and the Networked Future -- The Role of Journalism and News Media -- In Utramque Partem: Twisting the Rhetoric of "Both Sides" -- Combating "Both Sides": Learning from the Lessons of 2016 -- Networked Structure: Inaugurating a New Reality for Digital Politics -- References -- Index.

Informed by critical theory, this book employs Social Network Analysis (SNA) to examine the ever-increasing impact that social media has on politics and contemporary civic discourse.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2025. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.