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Patterns, Models, and Challenges in Online Social Media: A Survey
Niccolò Di Marco, Anita Bonetti, Edoardo Di Martino +10
The rise of digital platforms has enabled the large scale observation of individual and collective behavior through high resolution interaction data. This development has opened ne…
Towards global equity in political polarization research
Max Falkenberg, Matteo Cinelli, Alessandro Galeazzi +18
With a folk understanding that political polarization refers to socio-political divisions within a society, many have proclaimed that we are more divided than ever. In this account…
Affective and interactional polarization align across countries
Max Falkenberg, Fabiana Zollo, Walter Quattrociocchi +2
Political polarization plays a pivotal and potentially harmful role in a democracy. However, existing studies are often limited to a single country and one form of polarization, hi…
Hurricanes Increase Climate Change Conversations on Twitter
Maddalena Torricelli, Max Falkenberg, Alessandro Galeazzi +3
The public understanding of climate change plays a critical role in translating climate science into climate action. In the public discourse, climate impacts are often discussed in…
Unveiling the Hidden Agenda: Biases in News Reporting and Consumption
Alessandro Galeazzi, Antonio Peruzzi, Emanuele Brugnoli +2
One of the most pressing challenges in the digital media landscape is understanding the impact of biases on the news sources that people rely on for information. Biased news can ha…
Growing polarisation around climate change on social media
Max Falkenberg, Alessandro Galeazzi, Maddalena Torricelli +8
Climate change and political polarisation are two of the 21st century's critical socio-political issues. Here, we investigate their intersection by studying the discussion around t…
Lack of evidence for correlation between COVID-19 infodemic and vaccine acceptance
Carlo M. Valensise, Matteo Cinelli, Matthieu Nadini +6
How information consumption affects behaviour is an open and widely debated research question. A popular hypothesis states that the so-called infodemic has a substantial impact on…
Online Hate: Behavioural Dynamics and Relationship with Misinformation
Matteo Cinelli, Andraž Pelicon, Igor Mozetič +3
Online debates are often characterised by extreme polarisation and heated discussions among users. The presence of hate speech online is becoming increasingly problematic, making n…
The COVID-19 Social Media Infodemic
Matteo Cinelli, Walter Quattrociocchi, Alessandro Galeazzi +6
We address the diffusion of information about the COVID-19 with a massive data analysis on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit and Gab. We analyze engagement and interest in the CO…
(Mis)Information Operations: An Integrated Perspective
Matteo Cinelli, Mauro Conti, Livio Finos +6
The massive diffusion of social media fosters disintermediation and changes the way users are informed, the way they process reality, and the way they engage in public debate. The…
Selective Exposure shapes the Facebook News Diet
Matteo Cinelli, Emanuele Brugnoli, Ana Lucia Schmidt +3
The social brain hypothesis fixes to 150 the number of social relationships we are able to maintain. Similar cognitive constraints emerge in several aspects of our daily life, from…
Lexical convergence and collective identities on Facebook
Emanuele Brugnoli, Matteo Cinelli, Fabiana Zollo +2
Recent studies, targeting Facebook, showed the tendency of users to interact with information adhering to their preferred narrative and to ignore dissenting information. Primarily…
A model-driven approach for a new generation of adaptive libraries
Marco Cianfriglia, Flavio Vella, Cedric Nugteren +2
Efficient high-performance libraries often expose multiple tunable parameters to provide highly optimized routines. These can range from simple loop unroll factors or vector sizes…
Polarization Rank: A Study on European News Consumption on Facebook
Ana Lucía Schmidt, Fabiana Zollo, Antonio Scala +1
The advent of WWW changed the way we can produce and access information. Recent studies showed that users tend to select information that is consistent with their system of beliefs…
Polarization and Fake News: Early Warning of Potential Misinformation Targets
Michela Del Vicario, Walter Quattrociocchi, Antonio Scala +1
Users polarization and confirmation bias play a key role in misinformation spreading on online social media. Our aim is to use this information to determine in advance potential ta…
Polarization of the Vaccination Debate on Facebook
Ana Lucia Schmidt, Fabiana Zollo, Antonio Scala +2
Vaccine hesitancy has been recognized as a major global health threat. Having access to any type of information in social media has been suggested as a potential powerful influence…
Misinformation spreading on Facebook
Fabiana Zollo, Walter Quattrociocchi
Social media are pervaded by unsubstantiated or untruthful rumors, that contribute to the alarming phenomenon of misinformation. The widespread presence of a heterogeneous mass of…
Public discourse and news consumption on online social media: A quantitative, cross-platform analysis of the Italian Referendum
Michela Del Vicario, Sabrina Gaito, Walter Quattrociocchi +2
The rising attention to the spreading of fake news and unsubstantiated rumors on online social media and the pivotal role played by confirmation bias led researchers to investigate…
The Anatomy of Brexit Debate on Facebook
Michela Del Vicario, Fabiana Zollo, Guido Caldarelli +2
Nowadays users get informed and shape their opinion through social media. However, the disintermediated access to contents does not guarantee quality of information. Selective expo…
Echo Chambers: Emotional Contagion and Group Polarization on Facebook
Michela Del Vicario, Gianna Vivaldo, Alessandro Bessi +4
Recent findings showed that users on Facebook tend to select information that adhere to their system of beliefs and to form polarized groups -- i.e., echo chambers. Such a tendency…
Users Polarization on Facebook and Youtube
Alessandro Bessi, Fabiana Zollo, Michela Del Vicario +5
On social media algorithms for content promotion, accounting for users preferences, might limit the exposure to unsolicited contents. In this work, we study how the same contents (…
Debunking in a World of Tribes
Fabiana Zollo, Alessandro Bessi, Michela Del Vicario +5
Recently a simple military exercise on the Internet was perceived as the beginning of a new civil war in the US. Social media aggregate people around common interests eliciting a c…
Echo chambers in the age of misinformation
Michela Del Vicario, Alessandro Bessi, Fabiana Zollo +5
The wide availability of user-provided content in online social media facilitates the aggregation of people around common interests, worldviews, and narratives. Despite the enthusi…
Emotional Dynamics in the Age of Misinformation
Fabiana Zollo, Petra Kralj Novak, Michela Del Vicario +5
According to the World Economic Forum, the diffusion of unsubstantiated rumors on online social media is one of the main threats for our society. The disintermediated paradigm of c…