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most citedIdeological differences in engagement in public debate on Twitter

40 citations · 54 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.SI2026

High prevalence of antagonizing rhetoric in trending topics on Twitter/X

Armin Pournaki, Eckehard Olbrich

Disagreement between political opponents is a central element of democracy. This disagreement can be voiced in different ways. An opponent can be antagonized, i.e. portrayed as an…

cs.SI2025

How Influencers and Multipliers Drive Polarization and Issue Alignment on Twitter/X

Armin Pournaki, Felix Gaisbauer, Eckehard Olbrich

We investigate the polarization of the German Twittersphere by extracting the main issues discussed and the signaled opinions of users towards those issues based on (re)tweets conc…

cs.SI2025

A political cartography of news sharing: Capturing story, outlet and content level of news circulation on Twitter

Felix Gaisbauer, Armin Pournaki, Jakob Ohme

News sharing on digital platforms shapes the digital spaces millions of users navigate. Trace data from these platforms also enables researchers to study online news circulation. I…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 5 cited

Order-disorder transition in the zero-temperature Ising model on random graphs

Armin Pournaki, Eckehard Olbrich, Sven Banisch +1

The zero-temperature Ising model is known to reach a fully ordered ground state in sufficiently dense random graphs. In sparse random graphs, the dynamics gets absorbed in disorder…

cs.SI2021★ 6 cited

Grounding force-directed network layouts with latent space models

Felix Gaisbauer, Armin Pournaki, Sven Banisch +1

Force-directed layout algorithms are ubiquitously-used tools for network visualisation across a multitude of scientific disciplines. However, they lack theoretical grounding which…

cs.SI2020★ 40 cited

Ideological differences in engagement in public debate on Twitter

Felix Gaisbauer, Armin Pournaki, Sven Banisch +1

This article analyses public debate on Twitter via network representations of retweets and replies. We argue that tweets observable on Twitter have both a direct and mediated effec…

cs.SI2020★ 3 cited

The Twitter Explorer: a Framework for Observing Twitter through Interactive Networks

Armin Pournaki, Felix Gaisbauer, Sven Banisch +1

We present an open-source interface for scientists to explore Twitter data through interactive network visualizations. Combining data collection, transformation and visualization i…