On the dynamics of political discussions on instagram: A network perspective

CHG Ferreira, F Murai, APC Silva, JM Almeida… - Online Social Networks …, 2021 - Elsevier
Instagram has been increasingly used as a source of information especially among the
youth. As a result, political figures now leverage the platform to spread opinions and political …

On network backbone extraction for modeling online collective behavior

CH Gomes Ferreira, F Murai, APC Silva, M Trevisan… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Collective user behavior in social media applications often drives several important online
and offline phenomena linked to the spread of opinions and information. Several studies …

Beyond groups: Uncovering dynamic communities on the whatsapp network of information dissemination

GP Nobre, CHG Ferreira, JM Almeida - … SocInfo 2020, Pisa, Italy, October 6 …, 2020 - Springer
In this paper, we investigate the network of information dissemination that emerges from
group communication in the increasingly popular WhatsApp platform. We aim to reveal …

Unveiling community dynamics on instagram political network

CH Gomes Ferreira, F Murai… - Proceedings of the 12th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Online Social Networks (OSNs) allow users to generate and consume content in an easy
and personalized way. Among OSNs, Instagram has seen a surge in popularity, and political …

A complex network approach to political analysis: Application to the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies

ACM Brito, FN Silva, DR Amancio - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
In this paper, we introduce a network-based methodology to study how political entities
evolve over time. We constructed networks of voting data from the Brazilian Chamber of …

Uncovering discussion groups on claims of election fraud from twitter

JM da Rosa Jr, RS Linhares, CHG Ferreira… - … conference on social …, 2022 - Springer
Twitter was widely used during the 2020 US election to disseminate claims of election fraud.
As a result, a number of works have examined this phenomenon from a variety of …

A data-driven network approach for characterization of political parties' ideology dynamics

J Faustino, H Barbosa, E Ribeiro, R Menezes - Applied Network Science, 2019 - Springer
Political ideology is a major social phenomena that plays a crucial role in the formation and
dynamics of ideologically-aligned social groups. This alignment gives rise to some of the …

PoliWAM: an exploration of a large scale corpus of political discussions on WhatsApp messenger

V Srivastava, M Singh - arxiv preprint arxiv:2010.13263, 2020 - arxiv.org
WhatsApp Messenger is one of the most popular channels for spreading information with a
current reach of more than 180 countries and 2 billion people. Its widespread usage has …

Analyzing and visualizing polarization and balance with signed networks: the US Congress case study

A Capozzi, A Semeraro, G Ruffo - Journal of Complex Networks, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Signed networks and balance theory provide a natural setting for real-world scenarios that
show polarization dynamics, positive/negative relationships and political partisanship. For …

How Brazilian congressmen connect: homophily and cohesion in voting and donation networks

VS Bursztyn, MG Nunes… - Journal of Complex …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Two fundamental activities in the career of a congressman are raising campaign funds and
voting on bills. Characterizing the interplay between these two activities is crucial for …