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Integrated or Segregated? User Behavior Change after Cross-Party Interactions on Reddit
Yan Xia, Corrado Monti, Barbara Keller +1
It has been a widely shared concern that social media reinforces echo chambers of like-minded users and exacerbate political polarization. While fostering interactions across party…
The language of opinion change on social media under the lens of communicative action
Corrado Monti, Luca Maria Aiello, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales +1
Which messages are more effective at inducing a change of opinion in the listener? We approach this question within the frame of Habermas' theory of communicative action, which pos…
Learning Ideological Embeddings from Information Cascades
Corrado Monti, Giuseppe Manco, Cigdem Aslay +1
Modeling information cascades in a social network through the lenses of the ideological leaning of its users can help understanding phenomena such as misinformation propagation and…
Clandestino or Rifugiato? Anti-immigration Facebook Ad Targeting in Italy
Arthur Capozzi, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Yelena Mejova +3
Monitoring advertising around controversial issues is an important step in ensuring accountability and transparency of political processes. To that end, we use the Facebook Ads Lib…
No Echo in the Chambers of Political Interactions on Reddit
Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Corrado Monti, Michele Starnini
Echo chambers in online social networks, whereby users' beliefs are reinforced by interactions with like-minded peers and insulation from others' points of view, have been decried…
Facebook Ads: Politics of Migration in Italy
Arthur Capozzi, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Yelena Mejova +3
Targeted online advertising is on the forefront of political communication, allowing hyper-local advertising campaigns around elections and issues. In this study, we employ a new r…