Finally, looking at the demographic composition of consumption "types", we find that the media-oriented clusters (exc. superconsumers) have older individuals, more women, and more registered Democrats.

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Americans also vary in the breakdown of actors that populate their feeds, but interestingly, the bulk of the population gets half or more of their political exposure from *traditional sources*—media organizations, journalists, and politicians.

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People's political feeds mostly map onto 8 distinct types that vary in the amount of politics they get, both in absolute #'s and as % the feed as a whole. Still, for nearly 90% of the population, about 1 in 12 posts from their network are political. Quite an engaged public!

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🚨New paper🚨 out in the International Journal of Press/Politics w/ Assaf Shamir and @jenny-oser.bsky.social 🎉

Here's what we learned from studying the composition of political content available to 600k+ registered U.S. voters on Twitter during the 2020 election.

doi.org/10.1177/1940...
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