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Cascades in interdependent flow networks
Antonio Scala, Pier Giorgio De Sanctis Lucentini, Guido Caldarelli +1
We investigate the abrupt breakdown behavior of coupled distribution grids under load growth. This scenario mimics the ever-increasing customer demand and the foreseen introduction…
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…
The equal load-sharing model of cascade failures in power grids
Antonio Scala, Pier Giorgio De Sanctis Lucentini
Electric power-systems are one of the most important critical infrastructures. In recent years, they have been exposed to extreme stress due to the increasing demand, the introduct…
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…
Green power grids: how energy from renewable sources affects network and markets
Mario Mureddu, Guido Caldarelli, Alessandro Chessa +2
The increasing attention to environmental issues is forcing the implementation of novel energy models based on renewable sources, fundamentally changing the configuration of energy…
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…