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Affective Polarization across European Parliaments
Bojan Evkoski, Igor Mozetič, Nikola Ljubešić +1
Affective polarization, characterized by increased negativity and hostility towards opposing groups, has become a prominent feature of political discourse worldwide. Our study exam…
Online Hate: Behavioural Dynamics and Relationship with Misinformation
Matteo Cinelli, Andraž Pelicon, Igor Mozetič +3
Online debates are often characterised by extreme polarisation and heated discussions among users. The presence of hate speech online is becoming increasingly problematic, making n…
Retweet communities reveal the main sources of hate speech
Bojan Evkoski, Andraz Pelicon, Igor Mozetic +2
We address a challenging problem of identifying main sources of hate speech on Twitter. On one hand, we carefully annotate a large set of tweets for hate speech, and deploy advance…
Community evolution in retweet networks
Bojan Evkoski, Igor Mozetic, Nikola Ljubesic +1
Communities in social networks often reflect close social ties between their members and their evolution through time. We propose an approach that tracks two aspects of community e…
(Mis)Information Operations: An Integrated Perspective
Matteo Cinelli, Mauro Conti, Livio Finos +6
The massive diffusion of social media fosters disintermediation and changes the way users are informed, the way they process reality, and the way they engage in public debate. The…
Leveraging Contextual Embeddings for Detecting Diachronic Semantic Shift
Matej Martinc, Petra Kralj Novak, Senja Pollak
We propose a new method that leverages contextual embeddings for the task of diachronic semantic shift detection by generating time specific word representations from BERT embeddin…
Forex trading and Twitter: Spam, bots, and reputation manipulation
Igor Mozetič, Peter Gabrovšek, Petra Kralj Novak
Currency trading (Forex) is the largest world market in terms of volume. We analyze trading and tweeting about the EUR-USD currency pair over a period of three years. First, a larg…
Analysis of Financial News with NewsStream
Petra Kralj Novak, Miha Grcar, Borut Sluban +1
Unstructured data, such as news and blogs, can provide valuable insights into the financial world. We present the NewsStream portal, an intuitive and easy-to-use tool for news anal…
Emotional Dynamics in the Age of Misinformation
Fabiana Zollo, Petra Kralj Novak, Michela Del Vicario +5
According to the World Economic Forum, the diffusion of unsubstantiated rumors on online social media is one of the main threats for our society. The disintermediated paradigm of c…
News Cohesiveness: an Indicator of Systemic Risk in Financial Markets
Matija Piškorec, Nino Antulov-Fantulin, Petra Kralj Novak +4
Motivated by recent financial crises significant research efforts have been put into studying contagion effects and herding behaviour in financial markets. Much less has been said…