3 papers
cs.CY2026
The Power of 10: New Rules for the Digital World
Sarah Spiekermann-Hoff, Marc Langheinrich, Johannes Hoff +4
As artificial intelligence rapidly advances, society is increasingly captivated by promises of superhuman machines and seamless digital futures. Yet these visions often obscure mou…
cs.CL2025
Digital Gatekeepers: Google's Role in Curating Hashtags and Subreddits
Amrit Poudel, Yifan Ding, Jurgen Pfeffer +1
Search engines play a crucial role as digital gatekeepers, shaping the visibility of Web and social media content through algorithmic curation. This study investigates how search e…
physics.soc-ph2023
Affective and interactional polarization align across countries
Max Falkenberg, Fabiana Zollo, Walter Quattrociocchi +2
Political polarization plays a pivotal and potentially harmful role in a democracy. However, existing studies are often limited to a single country and one form of polarization, hi…