4 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…
How to Detect Information Voids Using Longitudinal Data from Social Media and Web Searches
Irene Scalco, Francesco Gesualdo, Roy Cerqueti +1
The model of the attention economy, where content producers compete for the attention of users, relies on two key forces: information supply and demand. This study leverages the fe…