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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…
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…
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…