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Uncovering the Sociodemographic Fabric of Reddit
Federico Cinus, Corrado Monti, Paolo Bajardi +1
Understanding the sociodemographic composition of online platforms is essential for accurately interpreting digital behavior and its societal implications. Yet, current methods oft…
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…
Likelihood-Based Methods Improve Parameter Estimation in Opinion Dynamics Models
Jacopo Lenti, Corrado Monti, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales
We show that a maximum likelihood approach for parameter estimation in agent-based models (ABMs) of opinion dynamics outperforms the typical simulation-based approach. Simulation-b…
The Thin Ideology of Populist Advertising on Facebook during the 2019 EU Elections
Arthur Capozzi, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Yelena Mejova +2
Social media has been an important tool in the expansion of the populist message, and it is thought to have contributed to the electoral success of populist parties in the past dec…
Cascade-based Echo Chamber Detection
Marco Minici, Federico Cinus, Corrado Monti +2
Despite echo chambers in social media have been under considerable scrutiny, general models for their detection and analysis are missing. In this work, we aim to fill this gap by p…
On the Relation Between Opinion Change and Information Consumption on Reddit
Flavio Petruzzellis, Corrado Monti, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales +1
While much attention has been devoted to the causes of opinion change, little is known about its consequences. Our study sheds a light on the relationship between one user's opinio…
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…
Learning Opinion Dynamics From Social Traces
Corrado Monti, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Francesco Bonchi
Opinion dynamics - the research field dealing with how people's opinions form and evolve in a social context - traditionally uses agent-based models to validate the implications of…
Roots of Trumpism: Homophily and Social Feedback in Donald Trump Support on Reddit
Joan Massachs, Corrado Monti, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales +1
We study the emergence of support for Donald Trump in Reddit's political discussion. With almost 800k subscribers, "r/The_Donald" is one of the largest communities on Reddit, and o…
Estimating latent feature-feature interactions in large feature-rich graphs
Corrado Monti, Paolo Boldi
Real-world complex networks describe connections between objects; in reality, those objects are often endowed with some kind of features. How does the presence or absence of such f…
LlamaFur: Learning Latent Category Matrix to Find Unexpected Relations in Wikipedia
Paolo Boldi, Corrado Monti
Besides finding trends and unveiling typical patterns, modern information retrieval is increasingly more interested in the discovery of surprising information in textual datasets.…
Liquid FM: Recommending Music through Viscous Democracy
Paolo Boldi, Corrado Monti, Massimo Santini +1
Most modern recommendation systems use the approach of collaborative filtering: users that are believed to behave alike are used to produce recommendations. In this work we describ…
A Network Model characterized by a Latent Attribute Structure with Competition
Paolo Boldi, Irene Crimaldi, Corrado Monti
The quest for a model that is able to explain, describe, analyze and simulate real-world complex networks is of uttermost practical as well as theoretical interest. In this paper w…
Political Disaffection: a case study on the Italian Twitter community
Corrado Monti, Alessandro Rozza, Giovanni Zappella +3
In our work we analyse the political disaffection or "the subjective feeling of powerlessness, cynicism, and lack of confidence in the political process, politicians, and democrati…