Social Media and the ‘Spiral of Silence’
A major insight into human behavior from pre-internet era studies of communication is the tendency of people not to speak up about policy issues in public—or among their family, friends, and work colleagues—when they believe their own point of view is not widely shared. This tendency is called the “spiral of silence.”
http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/08/26/social-media-and-the-spiral-of-silence/
They were measuring not in Diaspora, obviously, worked with real people who have real offline friends in those communities. Though I am sure that similar results will be in anonymous communities too. #internet #web #social-media #spiral-of-silence
