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Signed ego network model and its application to Twitter
Jack Tacchi, Chiara Boldrini, Andrea Passarella +1
The Ego Network Model (ENM) describes how individuals organise their social relations in concentric circles (typically five) of decreasing intimacy, and it has been found almost ub…
Dynamics of opinion polarization
E. Biondi, C. Boldrini, A. Passarella +1
For decades, researchers have been trying to understand how people form their opinions. This quest has become even more pressing with the widespread usage of online social networks…
Models for digitally contact-traced epidemics
Chiara Boldrini, Andrea Passarella, Marco Conti
Contacts between people are the absolute drivers of contagious respiratory infections. For this reason, limiting and tracking contacts is a key strategy for the control of the COVI…
Structural invariants and semantic fingerprints in the "ego network" of words
Kilian Ollivier, Chiara Boldrini, Andrea Passarella +1
Well-established cognitive models coming from anthropology have shown that, due to the cognitive constraints that limit our "bandwidth" for social interactions, humans organize the…