8 papers
Evolution of Conditional Entropy for Diffusion Dynamics on Graphs
Samuel Koovely, Alexandre Bovet
The modeling of diffusion processes on graphs is the basis for many network science and machine learning approaches. Entropic measures of network-based diffusion have recently been…
Measuring Structural Political Fragmentation
Yuan Zhang, Laia Castro, Frank Esser +1
Political fragmentation denotes the differentiation of a political system into multiple groups and the extent of separation among them. It often manifests structurally in online in…
A multilevel network approach to revealing patterns of online political selective exposure
Yuan Zhang, Laia Castro Herrero, Frank Esser +1
Selective exposure, individuals' inclination to seek out information that supports their beliefs while avoiding information that contradicts them, plays an important role in the em…
Arab Spring's Impact on Science through the Lens of Scholarly Attention, Funding, and Migration
Yasaman Asgari, Hongyu Zhou, Ozgur Kadir Ozer +3
The 2010-2011 Arab Spring reverberated far beyond politics, reshaping how the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) is studied. Analyzing 3.7 million Scopus-indexed articles p…
Negative Ties Highlight Hidden Extremes in Social Media Polarization
Elena Candellone, Shazia'Ayn Babul, Ãzgür Togay +2
Human interactions in the online world comprise a combination of positive and negative exchanges. These diverse interactions can be captured using signed network representations, w…
Quantifying the Spread of Online Incivility in Brazilian Politics
Yuan Zhang, Michael Amsler, Laia Castro Herrero +2
Incivility refers to behaviors that violate collective norms and disrupt cooperation within the political process. Although large-scale online data and automated techniques have en…