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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…
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…
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…
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…
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 (…
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…
Trend of Narratives in the Age of Misinformation
Alessandro Bessi, Fabiana Zollo, Michela Del Vicario +3
Social media enabled a direct path from producer to consumer of contents changing the way users get informed, debate, and shape their worldviews. Such a {\em disintermediation} wea…
Everyday the Same Picture: Popularity and Content Diversity
Alessandro Bessi, Fabiana Zollo, Michela Del Vicario +4
Facebook is flooded by diverse and heterogeneous content, from kittens up to music and news, passing through satirical and funny stories. Each piece of that corpus reflects the het…
Structural Patterns of the Occupy Movement on Facebook
Michela Del Vicario, Qian Zhang, Alessandro Bessi +4
In this work we study a peculiar example of social organization on Facebook: the Occupy Movement -- i.e., an international protest movement against social and economic inequality o…
Viral Misinformation: The Role of Homophily and Polarization
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Alessandro Bessi, Guido Caldarelli +5
The spreading of unsubstantiated rumors on online social networks (OSN) either unintentionally or intentionally (e.g., for political reasons or even trolling) can have serious cons…