6 papers
Platform Sorting Drives Ideological Fragmentation in the Social Media Ecosystem
Edoardo Di Martino, Alessandro Galeazzi, Matteo Cinelli +2
Ideological asymmetries in online political communication are often studied as localized phenomena emerging within communities. Here, we show that fragmentation instead operates at…
Persistent Structural Inequality of Online Interactions Across Platforms
Giulio Pecile, Edoardo Di Martino, Edoardo Loru +3
User interactions on social media platforms are unevenly distributed: a small subset of users consistently captures most of the activity, while the majority remains marginal. Altho…
Z-Dip: a standardized measure for data modality assessment
Edoardo Di Martino, Matteo Cinelli, Roy Cerqueti
Detecting multimodality in empirical distributions is a fundamental problem in statistics and data analysis, with applications ranging from clustering to the study of complex syste…
Patterns, Models, and Challenges in Online Social Media: A Survey
Niccolò Di Marco, Anita Bonetti, Edoardo Di Martino +10
The rise of digital platforms has enabled the large scale observation of individual and collective behavior through high resolution interaction data. This development has opened ne…
Involvement drives complexity of language in online debates
Eleonora Amadori, Daniele Cirulli, Edoardo Di Martino +7
Language is a fundamental aspect of human societies, continuously evolving in response to various stimuli, including societal changes and intercultural interactions. Technological…
Quantifying Polarization: A Comparative Study of Measures and Methods
Edoardo Di Martino, Matteo Cinelli, Roy Cerqueti +1
Political polarization, a key driver of social fragmentation, has drawn increasing attention for its role in shaping online and offline discourse. Despite significant efforts, accu…