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On a Network Centrality Maximization Game
Costanza Catalano, Maria Castaldo, Giacomo Como +1
We study a network formation game where players, identified with the nodes of a directed graph to be formed, choose where to wire their outgoing links in order to maximize thei…
Doing data science with platforms crumbs: an investigation into fakes views on YouTube
Maria Castaldo, Paolo Frasca, Tommaso Venturini +1
This paper contributes to the ongoing discussions on the scholarly access to social media data, discussing a case where this access is barred despite its value for understanding an…
On Online Attention Dynamics
Maria Castaldo, Paolo Frasca, Tommaso Venturini
This work aims at emphasizing a number of questions that, although crucial since the early days of media studies, have not yet been the object of the empirical and computational st…
Predicting the Factuality of Reporting of News Media Using Observations About User Attention in Their YouTube Channels
Krasimira Bozhanova, Yoan Dinkov, Ivan Koychev +3
We propose a novel framework for predicting the factuality of reporting of news media outlets by studying the user attention cycles in their YouTube channels. In particular, we des…
A collaborative path to scientific discovery: Distribution of labor, productivity and innovation in collaborative science
Floriana Gargiulo, Maria Castaldo, Tommaso Venturini +1
In this work we dig into the process of scientific discovery by looking at a yet unexploited source of information: Polymath projects. Polymath projects are an original attempt to…
The Rhythms of the Night: increase in online night activity and emotional resilience during the Spring 2020 Covid-19 lockdown
Maria Castaldo, Tommaso Venturini, Paolo Frasca +1
Context. The lockdown orders established in multiple countries in response to the Covid-19 pandemics are arguably one of the most widespread and deepest shock experienced by societ…
Junk News Bubbles: Modelling the Rise and Fall of Attention in Online Arenas
Maria Castaldo, Tommaso Venturini, Paolo Frasca +1
In this paper, we present a type of media disorder which we call "`junk news bubbles" and which derives from the effort invested by online platforms and their users to identify and…
On a Centrality Maximization Game
Maria Castaldo, Costanza Catalano, Giacomo Como +1
The Bonacich centrality is a well-known measure of the relative importance of nodes in a network. This notion is, for example, at the core of Google's PageRank algorithm. In this p…