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most citedQuantifying time-dependent Media Agenda and Public Opinion by topic modeling

42 citations · 62 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.SI2026

Weaker Coherence, Weaker Reciprocity: Comparing the Semantic and Social Organization of Moltbook and Reddit

Favio Di Ciocco, Lucas Díaz Celauro, Sebastián Pinto +2

Large language models enable the creation of autonomous agents that interact in social environments, raising the question of whether agent-based platforms reproduce the organizatio…

physics.soc-ph2023

Delay model for the dynamics of information units in the digital environment

Sebastián Pinto, Alejandro Pardo Pintos, Pablo Balenzuela +1

The digital revolution has transformed the exchange of information between people, blurring the traditional roles of sources and recipients. In this study, we explore the influence…

cs.SI2023

Evaluating the Relationship Between News Source Sharing and Political Beliefs

Sofía M del Pozo, Sebastián Pinto, Matteo Serafino +4

In an era marked by an abundance of news sources, access to information significantly influences public opinion. Notably, the bias of news sources often serves as an indicator of i…

cs.SI2023

Analyzing User Ideologies and Shared News During the 2019 Argentinian Elections

Sofía M del Pozo, Sebastián Pinto, Matteo Serafino +3

The extensive data generated on social media platforms allow us to gain insights over trending topics and public opinions. Additionally, it offers a window into user behavior, incl…

physics.soc-ph2021

Reconstructing social sensitivity from evolution of content volume in Twitter

Sebastián Pinto, Marcos Trevisan, Pablo Balenzuela

We set up a simple mathematical model for the dynamics of public interest in terms of media coverage and social interactions. We test the model on a series of events related to vio…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 3 cited

A novel analytical formulation of the Axelrod model

Lucía Pedraza, Sebastián Pinto, Juan Pablo Pinasco +1

The Axelrod model of cultural dissemination has been widely studied in the field of statistical mechanics. The traditional version of this agent-based model is to assign a cultural…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 3 cited

Erdös-Rényi phase transition in the Axelrod model on complete graphs

Sebastián Pinto, Pablo Balenzuela

The Axelrod model has been widely studied since its proposal for social influence and cultural dissemination. In particular, the community of statistical physics focused on the pre…

cs.SI2019

Analyzing Mass Media influence using natural language processing and time series analysis

Federico Albanese, Sebastián Pinto, Viktoriya Semeshenko +1

A key question of collective social behavior is related to the influence of Mass Media on public opinion. Different approaches have been developed to address quantitatively this is…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 42 cited

Quantifying time-dependent Media Agenda and Public Opinion by topic modeling

Sebastián Pinto, Federico Albanese, Claudio O. Dorso +1

The mass media plays a fundamental role in the formation of public opinion, either by defining the topics of discussion or by making an emphasis on certain issues. Directly or indi…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 14 cited

Setting the Agenda: Different strategies of a Mass Media in a model of cultural dissemination

Sebastián Pinto, Pablo Balenzuela, Claudio O. Dorso

Day by day, people exchange opinions about a given new with relatives, friends, and coworkers. In most cases, they get informed about a given issue by reading newspapers, listening…