3 papers
cs.SI2020
How the Far-Right Polarises Twitter: 'Highjacking' Hashtags in Times of COVID-19
Philipp Darius, Fabian Stephany
Twitter influences political debates. Phenomena like fake news and hate speech show that political discourse on micro-blogging can become strongly polarised by algorithmic enforcem…
cs.SI2020
How to Hijack Twitter: Online Polarisation Strategies of Germany's Political Far-Right
Philipp Darius, Fabian Stephany
With a network approach, we examine the case of the German far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and their potential use of a "hashjacking" strategy. Our findings sugge…
econ.GN2020
The CoRisk-Index: A data-mining approach to identify industry-specific risk assessments related to COVID-19 in real-time
Fabian Stephany, Niklas Stoehr, Philipp Darius +3
While the coronavirus spreads, governments are attempting to reduce contagion rates at the expense of negative economic effects. Market expectations plummeted, foreshadowing the ri…