3 papers
cs.CY2026
The Tone of Awareness: Topic, Sentiment, and Toxicity Maps During Mental Health Month on TikTok
Henrique Ferraz de Arruda, Andreia Sofia Teixeira, Pranay Gundala Reddy +3
Despite raising concerns about the mental health effects associated with the usage of TikTok, little is known about how related content is framed by creators and received by audien…
physics.soc-ph2025
Rumor propagation on hypergraphs
Kleber A. Oliveira, Pietro Traversa, Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda +1
The rapid spread of information and rumors through social media platforms, especially in group settings, motivates the need for more sophisticated models of rumor propagation. Trad…
physics.soc-ph2024
Mechanistic interplay between information spreading and opinion polarization
Kleber A. Oliveira, Henrique F. de Arruda, Yamir Moreno
We investigate how information-spreading mechanisms affect opinion dynamics and vice-versa via an agent-based simulation on adaptive social networks. First, we characterize the imp…