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Cognitive networks identify the content of English and Italian popular posts about COVID-19 vaccines: Anticipation, logistics, conspiracy and loss of trust

Massimo Stella, Michael S. Vitevitch, Federico Botta

Monitoring social discourse about COVID-19 vaccines is key to understanding how large populations perceive vaccination campaigns. We focus on 4765 unique popular tweets in English…

physics.soc-ph2020

Mapping computational thinking mindsets between educational levels with cognitive network science

Massimo Stella, Anastasiya Kapuza, Catherine Cramer +1

Computational thinking is a way of reasoning about the world in terms of data. This mindset channels number crunching toward an ambition to discover knowledge through logic, models…

physics.soc-ph2020

Multiplex networks quantify robustness of the mental lexicon to catastrophic concept failures, aphasic degradation and ageing

Massimo Stella

Concepts and their mental associations influence how language is processed and used. Networks represent powerful models for exploring such cognitive system, known as mental lexicon…

physics.soc-ph2018

Influence of augmented humans in online interactions during voting events

Massimo Stella, Marco Cristoforetti, Manlio De Domenico

The advent of the digital era provided a fertile ground for the development of virtual societies, complex systems influencing real-world dynamics. Understanding online human behavi…

physics.soc-ph2018

Distance entropy cartography characterises centrality in complex networks

Massimo Stella, Manlio De Domenico

We introduce distance entropy as a measure of homogeneity in the distribution of path lengths between a given node and its neighbours in a complex network. Distance entropy defines…

physics.soc-ph2018

Bots increase exposure to negative and inflammatory content in online social systems

Massimo Stella, Emilio Ferrara, Manlio De Domenico

Societies are complex systems which tend to polarize into sub-groups of individuals with dramatically opposite perspectives. This phenomenon is reflected -- and often amplified --…