Australia; International; WA
The rise of digital media appears to be a double-edged sword for democracy, with Australian international research suggesting digital media use can generally increase participation and knowledge of politics, but it also tends to increase levels of hate, populism, and political polarisation, The study, which pooled together the results of previous studies, also found that for democratic countries, digital media use is associated with eroding the ‘glue that keeps democracies together’: trust in political institutions.
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