5 papers
Network topology effects on the social circle polls
Giovanni Palermo, Emanuele Brugnoli, Ruggiero D. Lo Sardo +3
Election polls play a critical role in political discussions by probing public opinion and enabling political parties to assess their performance before elections. However, traditi…
News ecosystem dynamics: Supply, Demand, Diffusion, and the role of Disinformation
Pietro Gravino, Giulio Prevedello, Emanuele Brugnoli
The digital age provides new challenges as information travels more quickly in a system of increasing complexity. But it also offers new opportunities, as we can track and study th…
Cross-platform impact of social media algorithmic adjustments on public discourse
Pietro Gravino, Ruggiero Donald Lo Sardo, Emanuele Brugnoli
In the hypertrophic and uncharted information world, recommender systems are gatekeepers of knowledge. The evolution of these algorithms is usually an opaque process, but in Februa…
Assessing disinformation through the dynamics of supply and demand in the news ecosystem
Pietro Gravino, Giulio Prevedello, Martina Galletti +1
Social dialogue, the foundation of our democracies, is currently threatened by disinformation and partisanship, with their disrupting role on individual and collective awareness an…
On the emergence of syntactic structures: quantifying and modelling duality of patterning
Vittorio Loreto, Pietro Gravino, Vito D. P. Servedio +1
The complex organization of syntax in hierarchical structures is one of the core design features of human language. Duality of patterning refers for instance to the organization of…