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spir-12218	Ní Threasaigh, Míchílín; Boler, Megan	MELODRAMATIC PLATFORMS: THE AFFECTIVE THEATRE OF POLARIZED POLITICAL STORYTELLING ON SOCIAL MEDIA	2021.0	5	.pdf	application/pdf	1718	111	47	Conclusion: Social media platforms are shaping political discourse in ways that are counterproductive to democratic debate. THE AFFECTIVE THEATRE OF POLARIZED POLITICAL STORYTELLING ON SOCIAL MEDIA Selected Papers of #AoIR2021: The 22nd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Virtual Event / 13-16 Oct 2021 MELODRAMATIC PLATFORMS: THE AFFECTIVE THEATRE OF POLARIZED POLITICAL STORYTELLING ON SOCIAL MEDIA Míchílín Ní Threasaigh Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto Megan Boler Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto Contrary to claims that social media platforms are not contributing to political polarization, our study of affect and narratives of race and national belonging in social media discourses of the 2019 Canadian and 2020 U.S. federal elections reveals clearly polarized, collective political storytelling marked by a highly affective moralizing tone and clear binaries of us versus them and good versus evil.	cache/spir-12218.pdf	txt/spir-12218.txt