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A Herd of Young Mastodonts: the User-Centered Footprints of Newcomers After Twitter Acquisition
Francesco Di Cursi, Chiara Boldrini, Andrea Passarella +1
The tremendous success of major Online Social Networks (OSNs) platforms has raised increasing concerns about negative phenomena, such as mass control, fake news, and echo chambers.…
Social Isolation, Digital Connection: COVID-19's Impact on Twitter Ego Networks
Kamer Cekini, Elisabetta Biondi, Chiara Boldrini +2
One of the most impactful measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in its early first years was the lockdown, implemented by governments to reduce physical contact among people and…
Applying the Ego Network Model to Cross-Target Stance Detection
Jack Tacchi, Parisa Jamadi Khiabani, Arkaitz Zubiaga +2
Understanding human interactions and social structures is an incredibly important task, especially in such an interconnected world. One task that facilitates this is Stance Detecti…
Unveiling Cognitive Constraints in Language Production: Extracting and Validating the Active Ego Network of Words
Kilian Ollivier, Chiara Boldrini, Andrea Passarella +1
The "ego network of words" model captures structural properties in language production associated with cognitive constraints. While previous research focused on the layer-based str…
On the Potential of an Independent Avatar to Augment Metaverse Social Networks
Theofanis P. Raptis, Chiara Boldrini, Marco Conti +1
We present a computational modelling approach which targets capturing the specifics on how to virtually augment a Metaverse user's available social time capacity via using an indep…
Impact of network topology on the performance of Decentralized Federated Learning
Luigi Palmieri, Chiara Boldrini, Lorenzo Valerio +2
Fully decentralized learning is gaining momentum for training AI models at the Internet's edge, addressing infrastructure challenges and privacy concerns. In a decentralized machin…