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The Evolution of Language in Social Media Comments
Niccolò Di Marco, Edoardo Loru, Anita Bonetti +3
Understanding the impact of digital platforms on user behavior presents foundational challenges, including issues related to polarization, misinformation dynamics, and variation in…
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…
Hurricanes Increase Climate Change Conversations on Twitter
Maddalena Torricelli, Max Falkenberg, Alessandro Galeazzi +3
The public understanding of climate change plays a critical role in translating climate science into climate action. In the public discourse, climate impacts are often discussed in…
Users volatility on Reddit and Voat
Niccolò Di Marco, Matteo Cinelli, Shayan Alipour +1
Social media platforms are like giant arenas where users can rely on different content and express their opinions through likes, comments, and shares. However, do users welcome dif…
Online conspiracy communities are more resilient to deplatforming
Corrado Monti, Matteo Cinelli, Carlo Valensise +2
Online social media foster the creation of active communities around shared narratives. Such communities may turn into incubators for conspiracy theories -- some spreading violent…
Growing polarisation around climate change on social media
Max Falkenberg, Alessandro Galeazzi, Maddalena Torricelli +8
Climate change and political polarisation are two of the 21st century's critical socio-political issues. Here, we investigate their intersection by studying the discussion around t…