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The explosive value of the networks
Antonio Scala, Marco Delmastro
Networks have always played a special role for human beings in shaping social relations, forming public opinion, and driving economic equilibria. Nowadays, online networked platfor…
Evidence of economic segregation from mobility lockdown during COVID-19 epidemic
Giovanni Bonaccorsi, Francesco Pierri, Matteo Cinelli +8
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, National governments have applied lockdown restrictions to reduce the infection rate. We perform a massive analysis on near real-time Italian…
Time, Space and Social Interactions: Exit Mechanisms for the Covid-19 Epidemics
Antonio Scala, Andrea Flori, Alessandro Spelta +4
We develop a minimalist compartmental model to study the impact of mobility restrictions in Italy during the Covid-19 outbreak. We show that an early lockdown shifts the epidemic i…
Recursive patterns in online echo chambers
Emanuele Brugnoli, Matteo Cinelli, Walter Quattrociocchi +1
Despite their playful purpose social media changed the way users access information, debate, and form their opinions. Recent studies, indeed, showed that users online tend to promo…
A Dimensionality-Reduction Strategy to Compute Shortest Paths in Urban Water Networks
Carlo Giudicianni, Armando di Nardo, Gabriele Oliva +2
The efficient computation of shortest paths in complex networks is essential to face new challenges related to critical infrastructures such as a near real-time monitoring and cont…
Modeling confirmation bias and polarization
Michela Del Vicario, Antonio Scala, Guido Caldarelli +2
Online users tend to select claims that adhere to their system of beliefs and to ignore dissenting information. Confirmation bias, indeed, plays a pivotal role in viral phenomena.…