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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…
Rewiring What-to-Watch-Next Recommendations to Reduce Radicalization Pathways
Francesco Fabbri, Yanhao Wang, Francesco Bonchi +2
Recommender systems typically suggest to users content similar to what they consumed in the past. If a user happens to be exposed to strongly polarized content, she might subsequen…
Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment
Mirco Nanni, Gennady Andrienko, Albert-László Barabási +36
The rapid dynamics of COVID-19 calls for quick and effective tracking of virus transmission chains and early detection of outbreaks, especially in the phase 2 of the pandemic, when…
FA*IR: A Fair Top-k Ranking Algorithm
Meike Zehlike, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo +3
In this work, we define and solve the Fair Top-k Ranking problem, in which we want to determine a subset of k candidates from a large pool of n >> k candidates, maximizing utility…