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Changes to the Facebook Algorithm Decreased News Visibility Between 2021-2024
Szymon Talaga, Erin Wertz, Dominik Batorski +1
Platforms, especially Facebook, are primary news sources in the US. In its widely criticized "War on News," Meta algorithmically deprioritized news and political content. We use da…
Negative news posts are less prevalent and generate lower user engagement than non-negative news posts across six countries
Szymon Talaga, Dominik Batorski, Magdalena Wojcieszak
Although news negativity is often studied, missing is comparative evidence on the prevalence of and engagement with negative political and non-political news posts on social media.…
Polarization and multiscale structural balance in signed networks
Szymon Talaga, Massimo Stella, Trevor James Swanson +1
Polarization, understood as a division into mutually hostile groups, is a common feature of social systems. It is studied in Structural Balance Theory (SBT) in terms of semicycles…
Structural measures of similarity and complementarity in complex networks
Szymon Talaga, Andrzej Nowak
The principle of similarity, or homophily, is often used to explain patterns observed in complex networks such as transitivity and the abundance of triangles (3-cycles). However, m…
Communication networks and group effectiveness: the case of English Wikipedia
Agnieszka Rychwalska, Szymon Talaga, Karolina Ziembowicz +1
A selection of intellectual goods produced by online communities - e.g. open source software or knowledge bases like Wikipedia - are in daily use by a broad audience, and thus thei…
Revealing semantic and emotional structure of suicide notes with cognitive network science
Andreia Sofia Teixeira, Szymon Talaga, Trevor James Swanson +1
Understanding the cognitive and emotional perceptions of people who commit suicide is one of the most sensitive scientific challenges. There are circumstances where people feel the…
Homophily as a Process Generating Social Networks: Insights from Social Distance Attachment Model
Szymon Talaga, Andrzej Nowak
Real-world social networks often exhibit high levels of clustering, positive degree assortativity, short average path lengths (small-world property) and right-skewed but rarely pow…