3 papers
cs.SI2025
Kicking Politics: How Football Fan Communities Became Arenas for Political Influence
Helen Paffard, Diogo Pacheco
This paper investigates how political campaigns engaged UK football fan communities on Twitter in the aftermath of the Brexit Referendum (2016-2017). Football fandom, with its stro…
physics.soc-ph2025
Super-Linear Growth and Rising Inequality in Online Social Communities: Insights from Reddit
Guilherme Machado, Diogo Pacheco, Ronaldo Menezes +1
We study the effect of the number of users on the activity of communities within the online content sharing and discussion platform Reddit, called subreddits. We found that comment…
cs.SI2024
Misinformation Dissemination: Effects of Network Density in Segregated Communities
Soroush Karimi, Marcos Oliveira, Diogo Pacheco
Understanding the relationship between network features and misinformation propagation is crucial for mitigating the spread of false information. Here, we investigate how network d…