Posted by Juan Non-Volokh: Can We Talk? http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2005_05_22-2005_05_28.shtml#1117198119
Crooked Timber's Eszter Hargittai [1]reports on some interesting research on cross-ideological conversation on the internet. Cass Sunstein, among others, suggested that the web would produce (or enhance) ideological balkanization over time. The preliminary empirical data, measuring the extent to which right-leaning blogs link to left-leaning blogs (does this count?) and vice-versa, does not (yet) bear that out. It's an interesting post (with more interesting stuff in the comments). References 1. http://crookedtimber.org/2005/05/25/cross-ideological-conversations-among-bloggers/ _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://highsorcery.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
