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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 --…