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Competing for a Finite Pool of Attention in Social Media? How a New Geopolitical Conflict Reshapes Engagement in Bluesky
Kamand Kalashi, Arash Badie-Modiri, Ali Salloum +3
Major geopolitical crises can rapidly reshape online public attention. Yet population-level increases in discussion volume about a new crisis reveal little about how users accommod…
Echoes in the Sky: Computational Thematic Analysis of Online Public Discourse on Bluesky Across Trump's Reelection
Qile Wang, Ali Salloum, Carolina Coimbra Vieira +4
As political disruption intensifies online discourse, Bluesky has become an important platform for political discussion and public reaction. In this study, we examine large-scale d…
Politics and polarization on Bluesky
Ali Salloum, Dorian Quelle, Letizia Iannucci +2
Online political discourse is increasingly shaped not by a few dominant platforms but by a fragmented ecosystem of social media spaces, each with its own user base, target audience…
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…
Separating Polarization from Noise: Comparison and Normalization of Structural Polarization Measures
Ali Salloum, Ted Hsuan Yun Chen, Mikko Kivelä
Quantifying the amount of polarization is crucial for understanding and studying political polarization in political and social systems. Several methods are used commonly to measur…
Polarization of Climate Politics Results from Partisan Sorting: Evidence from Finnish Twittersphere
Ted Hsuan Yun Chen, Ali Salloum, Antti Gronow +2
Prior research shows that public opinion on climate politics sorts along partisan lines. However, they leave open the question of whether climate politics and other politically sal…