3 papers
physics.soc-ph2026
Regimes of Influence under Trust-Distrust Gating
Razieh Masoumi, Ahana Biswas, Yu-Ru Lin
In many social communities, individuals can simultaneously trust and distrust the same source, a feature standard opinion-dynamics models often ignore. We formalize this ambivalenc…
cs.SI2026
Shifting Patterns of Extremist Discourse on Facebook: Analyzing Trends and Developments During the Israel-Hamas Conflict
Rr. Nefriana, Muheng Yan, Ahmad Diab +5
This short paper explores trends in extremist Facebook data from July 2023 to June 2024. We examined engagement, sentiment, and topics within Facebook groups categorized as anti-Is…
cs.SI2026
From Attention to Dialogue: Does Audience Engagement Reinforce Constructive Cross-Party Communication?
Ahana Biswas, Yu-Ru Lin
While existing works have emphasized how elites shape mass opinion, we ask whether the reverse also holds: do audience reactions on social media actively shape elite behavior? We e…