3 papers
cs.SI2025
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…
cs.SI2024
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…
cs.SI2024
Limits of Multilayer Diffusion Network Inference in Social Media Research
Yan Xia, Ted Hsuan Yun Chen, Mikko Kivelä
Information on social media spreads through an underlying diffusion network that connects people of common interests and opinions. This diffusion network often comprises multiple l…