28 citations · 255 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for
5 papers · 1 filter
Modeling social resilience: Questions, answers, open problems
Frank Schweitzer, Georges Andres, Giona Casiraghi +5
Resilience denotes the capacity of a system to withstand shocks and its ability to recover from them. We develop a framework to quantify the resilience of highly volatile, non-equi…
Understanding Online Migration Decisions Following the Banning of Radical Communities
Giuseppe Russo, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Giona Casiraghi +1
The proliferation of radical online communities and their violent offshoots has sparked great societal concern. However, the current practice of banning such communities from mains…
Struggling with change: The fragile resilience of collectives
Frank Schweitzer, Christian Zingg, Giona Casiraghi
Collectives form non-equilibrium social structures characterised by a volatile dynamics. Individuals join or leave. Social relations change quickly. Therefore, differently from eng…
Reconstructing signed relations from interaction data
Georges Andres, Giona Casiraghi, Giacomo Vaccario +1
Positive and negative relations play an essential role in human behavior and shape the communities we live in. Despite their importance, data about signed relations is rare and com…
Spillover of Antisocial Behavior from Fringe Platforms: The Unintended Consequences of Community Banning
Giuseppe Russo, Luca Verginer, Manoel Horta Ribeiro +1
Online platforms face pressure to keep their communities civil and respectful. Thus, the bannings of problematic online communities from mainstream platforms like Reddit and Facebo…