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My Views Do Not Reflect Those of My Employer: Differences in Behavior of Organizations' Official and Personal Social Media Accounts
Esa Palosaari, Ted Hsuan Yun Chen, Arttu Malkamäki +1
On social media, the boundaries between people's private and public lives often blur. The need to navigate both roles, which are governed by distinct norms, impacts how individuals…
Multiway Alignment of Political Attitudes
Letizia Iannucci, Ali Faqeeh, Ali Salloum +2
The related concepts of partisan belief systems, issue alignment, and partisan sorting are central to our understanding of politics. These phenomena have been studied using measure…
Anatomy of Elite and Mass Polarization in Social Networks
Ali Salloum, Ted Hsuan Yun Chen, Mikko Kivelä
In the political arena of social platforms, opposing factions of varying sizes show asymmetrical patterns, and elites and masses within these groups have divergent motivations and…
Complex coalitions: political alliances across relational contexts
Arttu Malkamäki, Ted Hsuan Yun Chen, Antti Gronow +3
Coalitions are central to politics, including government formation, international relations, and public policy. Coalitions emerge when actors engage one another across multiple rel…
OVNS: Opportunistic Variable Neighborhood Search for Heaviest Subgraph Problem in Social Networks
Ville P. Saarinen, Ted Hsuan Yun Chen, Mikko Kivelä
We propose a hybrid heuristic algorithm for solving the Heaviest k-Subgraph Problem in online social networks -- a combinatorial graph optimization problem central to many importan…
Spread of Tweets in Climate Discussions
Yan Xia, Ted Hsuan Yun Chen, Mikko Kivelä
Characterising the spreading of ideas within echo chambers is essential for understanding polarisation. In this paper, we explore the characteristics of popular and viral content i…