@article{Munson_Resnick_2021, title={The Prevalence of Political Discourse in Non-Political Blogs}, volume={5}, url={https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/14133}, DOI={10.1609/icwsm.v5i1.14133}, abstractNote={ <p> Though political theorists have emphasized the importance of political discussion in non-political spaces, past study of online political discussion has focused on primarily political websites. Using a random sample from Blogger.com, we find that 25% of all political posts are from blogs that post about politics less than 20% of the time, because the vast majority of blogs post about politics some of the time but infrequently. Far from being taboo topics in those non- political blogs, political posts got slightly more comments than non-political posts in those same blogs, and the comments overwhelmingly engage the political topics of the post, mostly agreeing but frequently disagreeing as well. We argue that non-political spaces devoted primarily to personal diaries, hobbies, and other topics represent a substantial place of online political discussion and should be a site for further study. </p> }, number={1}, journal={Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media}, author={Munson, Sean and Resnick, Paul}, year={2021}, month={Aug.}, pages={233-240} }