Echo chamber effects on short video platforms

Y Gao, F Liu, L Gao - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
In recent years, short videos have become an increasingly vital source of information. To
compete for users' attention, short video platforms have been overusing algorithmic …

A survey on echo chambers on social media: Description, detection and mitigation

F Alatawi, L Cheng, A Tahir, M Karami, B Jiang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Echo chambers on social media are a significant problem that can elicit a number of
negative consequences, most recently affecting the response to COVID-19. Echo chambers …

Social media frames my move and visual: The echo chamber effects on on-site tourism behaviors and destination marketing

X Tang, L Zhang, K Yuan - Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, 2024 - Elsevier
While social media has the potential to disseminate extensive travel-related information, it
may also inadvertently restrict exposure to diverse perspectives, leading to the prevalence of …

Profiling fake news spreaders on social media through psychological and motivational factors

M Karami, TH Nazer, H Liu - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM conference …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The rise of fake news in the past decade has brought with it a host of consequences, from
swaying opinions on elections to generating uncertainty during a pandemic. A majority of …

Towards psychologically-grounded dynamic preference models

M Curmei, AA Haupt, B Recht… - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Designing recommendation systems that serve content aligned with time varying
preferences requires proper accounting of the feedback effects of recommendations on …

Cascade-based echo chamber detection

M Minici, F Cinus, C Monti, F Bonchi… - Proceedings of the 31st …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Despite echo chambers in social media have been under considerable scrutiny, general
models for their detection and analysis are missing. In this work, we aim to fill this gap by …

[HTML][HTML] Social media's dark secrets: A propagation, lexical and psycholinguistic oriented deep learning approach for fake news proliferation

K Ahmed, MA Khan, I Haq, A Al Mazroa… - Expert Systems with …, 2024 - Elsevier
Most existing methods for detecting fraudulent news or other forms of disinformation
primarily rely on user profiling or content analysis, determining whether a given article aligns …

Did Covid-19 blur partisan boundaries? A comparison of partisan affinity and source heterophily in online alternative news-sharing networks before and during the …

JB Kristensen, FM Henriksen… - Social Media+ …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This study explores partisan and group heterophily within cross-platform online communities
that share alternative news media content in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, and Austria. The …

Media bias matters: Understanding the impact of politically biased news on vaccine attitudes in social media

B Jiang, L Cheng, Z Tan, R Guo… - 2024 IEEE 11th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
News media has been frequently utilized as a political tool to stray from facts, making biased
statements and claims without evidence. During the COVID-19 vaccine campaign, politically …

Assessing the Impact of Conspiracy Theories Using Large Language Models

B Jiang, D Li, Z Tan, X Zhou, A Rao, K Lerman… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Measuring the relative impact of CTs is important for prioritizing responses and allocating
resources effectively, especially during crises. However, assessing the actual impact of CTs …