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Hurricanes Increase Climate Change Conversations on Twitter
Maddalena Torricelli, Max Falkenberg, Alessandro Galeazzi +3
The public understanding of climate change plays a critical role in translating climate science into climate action. In the public discourse, climate impacts are often discussed in…
Growing polarisation around climate change on social media
Max Falkenberg, Alessandro Galeazzi, Maddalena Torricelli +8
Climate change and political polarisation are two of the 21st century's critical socio-political issues. Here, we investigate their intersection by studying the discussion around t…
Lack of evidence for correlation between COVID-19 infodemic and vaccine acceptance
Carlo M. Valensise, Matteo Cinelli, Matthieu Nadini +6
How information consumption affects behaviour is an open and widely debated research question. A popular hypothesis states that the so-called infodemic has a substantial impact on…
Entropy and complexity unveil the landscape of memes evolution
Carlo Michele Valensise, Alessandra Serra, Alessandro Galeazzi +3
On the Internet, information circulates fast and widely, and the form of content adapts to comply with users' cognitive abilities. Memes are an emerging aspect of the internet syst…
Echo Chambers on Social Media: A comparative analysis
Matteo Cinelli, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Alessandro Galeazzi +2
Recent studies have shown that online users tend to select information adhering to their system of beliefs, ignore information that does not, and join groups - i.e., echo chambers…
Evidence of economic segregation from mobility lockdown during COVID-19 epidemic
Giovanni Bonaccorsi, Francesco Pierri, Matteo Cinelli +8
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, National governments have applied lockdown restrictions to reduce the infection rate. We perform a massive analysis on near real-time Italian…