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Conspiracy and Environment Communities on Reddit Sort Along Different Demographic Axes
Miguel Á. Sánchez-Cortés, Corrado Monti, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales
The impact of online platforms in political mobilization is widely documented, yet it remains unclear how it affects different demographic groups. To shed light on this phenomenon,…
Conditional Publics: Shared Events and Divergent Meanings in the European Twitter Debate on the Ukraine War
Corrado Monti, Arthur Capozzi, Yelena Mejova +1
How do European publics debate a geopolitical crisis on social media, and do they inhabit a shared informational reality? We analyze over 38 million geolocated tweets from 20 Europ…
Causal Modeling of Climate Activism on Reddit
Jacopo Lenti, Luca Maria Aiello, Corrado Monti +1
Climate activism is crucial in stimulating collective societal and behavioral change towards sustainable practices through political pressure. Although multiple factors contribute…
Narratives of War: Ukrainian Memetic Warfare on Twitter
Yelena Mejova, Arthur Capozzi, Corrado Monti +1
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has seen an intensification in the use of social media by governmental actors in cyber warfare. Wartime communication via memes has been a succ…
Evidence of Demographic rather than Ideological Segregation in News Discussion on Reddit
Corrado Monti, Jacopo D'Ignazi, Michele Starnini +1
We evaluate homophily and heterophily among ideological and demographic groups in a typical opinion formation context: online discussions of current news. We analyze user interacti…
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…
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…