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The Contagion Effects of Repeated Activation in Social Networks
Pablo Piedrahita, Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Yamir Moreno +1
Demonstrations, protests, riots, and shifts in public opinion respond to the coordinating potential of communication networks. Digital technologies have turned interpersonal networ…
The dynamic of information-driven coordination phenomena: a transfer entropy analysis
Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Nicola Perra, Bruno Gonçalves +4
Data from social media are providing unprecedented opportunities to investigate the processes that rule the dynamics of collective social phenomena. Here, we consider an informatio…
Diffusion Dynamics with Changing Network Composition
Raquel A. Baños, Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Ning Wang +2
We analyze information diffusion using empirical data that tracks online communication around two instances of mass political mobilization, including the year that lapsed in-betwee…
Assessing the Bias in Communication Networks Sampled from Twitter
Sandra González-Bailón, Ning Wang, Alejandro Rivero +2
We collect and analyse messages exchanged in Twitter using two of the platform's publicly available APIs (the search and stream specifications). We assess the differences between t…
Broadcasters and Hidden Influentials in Online Protest Diffusion
Sandra González-Bailón, Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Yamir Moreno
This paper explores the growth of online mobilizations using data from the 'indignados' (the 'outraged') movement in Spain, which emerged under the influence of the revolution in E…
The Dynamics of Protest Recruitment through an Online Network
Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Alejandro Rivero +1
The recent wave of mobilizations in the Arab world and across Western countries has generated much discussion on how digital media is connected to the diffusion of protests. We exa…