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Vaccine Hesitancy on YouTube: a Competition between Health and Politics
Yelena Mejova, Michele Tizzani
YouTube has rapidly emerged as a predominant platform for content consumption, effectively displacing conventional media such as television and news outlets. A part of the enormous…
The Role of Science in the Climate Change Discussions on Reddit
Paolo Cornale, Michele Tizzani, Fabio Ciulla +4
Collective and individual action necessary to address climate change hinges on the public's understanding of the relevant scientific findings. In this study, we examine the use of…
Language-Agnostic Modeling of Source Reliability on Wikipedia
Jacopo D'Ignazi, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Yelena Mejova +4
Over the last few years, verifying the credibility of information sources has become a fundamental need to combat disinformation. Here, we present a language-agnostic model designe…
Socioeconomic determinants of protective behaviors and contact patterns in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era: a cross-sectional study in Italy
Michele Tizzani, Laetitia Gauvin
Socioeconomic inequalities significantly influence infectious disease outcomes, as seen with COVID-19, but the pathways through which socioeconomic conditions affect transmission d…
Political Context of the European Vaccine Debate on Twitter
Giordano Paoletti, Lorenzo Dall'Amico, Kyriaki Kalimeri +5
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, fears grew that making vaccination a political (instead of public health) issue may impact the efficacy of this life-saving intervention,…
Global misinformation spillovers in the online vaccination debate before and during COVID-19
Jacopo Lenti, Kyriaki Kalimeri, André Panisson +4
Anti-vaccination views pervade online social media, fueling distrust in scientific expertise and increasing vaccine-hesitant individuals. While previous studies focused on specific…
Echoes through Time: Evolution of the Italian COVID-19 Vaccination Debate
Giuseppe Crupi, Yelena Mejova, Michele Tizzani +2
Twitter is one of the most popular social media platforms in the country, but pre-pandemic vaccination debate has been shown to be polarized and siloed into echo chambers. It is th…
Collective response to the media coverage of COVID-19 Pandemic on Reddit and Wikipedia
Nicolò Gozzi, Michele Tizzani, Michele Starnini +4
The exposure and consumption of information during epidemic outbreaks may alter risk perception, trigger behavioural changes, and ultimately affect the evolution of the disease. It…
Phase transitions and stability of dynamical processes on hypergraphs
Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda, Michele Tizzani, Yamir Moreno
Hypergraphs naturally represent higher-order interactions, which persistently appear from social interactions to neural networks and other natural systems. Although their importanc…