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Urban mobility enables deprivation bubble breaking in Indian and Mexican cities
Yuan Liao, Federico Delussu, Sílvia de Sojo +2
Urban deprivation is traditionally measured using static, residence-based indicators, capturing the socioeconomic, demographic, and spatial conditions of neighborhoods. However, th…
Polarization and echo chambers in Reddit's political discourse
Daniele Cirulli, Antonio Desiderio, Giulio Cimini +1
Political debate nowadays takes place mainly on online social media, with election periods amplifying ideological engagement. Reddit is generally considered more resistant to polar…
Mapping Regional Disparities in Discounted Grocery Products
Antonio Desiderio, Alessia Galdeman, Franziska Bauerlein +1
Food waste represents a major challenge to global climate resilience, accounting for almost 10% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. The retail sector is a critical player, mediatin…
The rise and fall of WallStreetBets: social roles and opinion leaders across the GameStop saga
Anna Mancini, Antonio Desiderio, Giovanni Palermo +2
Nowadays human interactions largely take place on social networks, with online users' behavior often falling into a few general typologies or "social roles". Among these, opinion l…
The dynamics of the Reddit collective action leading to the GameStop short squeeze
Antonio Desiderio, Luca Maria Aiello, Giulio Cimini +1
In early 2021, the stock prices of GameStop, AMC, Nokia and BlackBerry experienced dramatic increases, triggered by short-squeeze operations that have been largely attributed to Re…
Spontaneous Opinion Swings in the Voter Model with Latency
Giovanni Palermo, Anna Mancini, Antonio Desiderio +2
The cognitive process of opinion formation is often characterized by stubbornness or resistance of agents to changes of opinion. To capture such a feature we introduce a constant l…