A new direction in social network analysis: Online social network analysis problems and applications

U Can, B Alatas - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2019‏ - Elsevier
The use of online social networks has made significant progress in recent years as the use
of the Internet has become widespread worldwide as the technological infrastructure and the …

The impact of group polarization on the quality of online debate in social media: A systematic literature review

L Iandoli, S Primario, G Zollo - Technological Forecasting and Social …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Social media are often accused of worsening the quality of online debate. In this paper, we
focus on group polarization in the context of social media-enabled interaction, a …

A survey of Twitter research: Data model, graph structure, sentiment analysis and attacks

D Antonakaki, P Fragopoulou, S Ioannidis - Expert systems with …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Twitter is the third most popular worldwide Online Social Network (OSN) after Facebook and
Instagram. Compared to other OSNs, it has a simple data model and a straightforward data …

Modeling echo chambers and polarization dynamics in social networks

F Baumann, P Lorenz-Spreen, IM Sokolov, M Starnini - Physical review letters, 2020‏ - APS
Echo chambers and opinion polarization recently quantified in several sociopolitical
contexts and across different social media raise concerns on their potential impact on the …

Quantifying ideological polarization on a network using generalized Euclidean distance

M Hohmann, K Devriendt, M Coscia - Science Advances, 2023‏ - science.org
An intensely debated topic is whether political polarization on social media is on the rise. We
can investigate this question only if we can quantify polarization, by taking into account how …

Quantifying controversy on social media

K Garimella, GDF Morales, A Gionis… - ACM Transactions on …, 2018‏ - dl.acm.org
Which topics spark the most heated debates on social media? Identifying those topics is not
only interesting from a societal point of view but also allows the filtering and aggregation of …

Analysis of political discourse on twitter in the context of the 2016 US presidential elections

U Yaqub, SA Chun, V Atluri, J Vaidya - Government Information Quarterly, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Social media now plays a pivotal role in electoral campaigns. Rapid dissemination of
information through platforms such as Twitter has enabled politicians to broadcast their …

A long-term analysis of polarization on Twitter

VRK Garimella, I Weber - … of the International AAAI Conference on Web …, 2017‏ - ojs.aaai.org
Social media has played an important role in sha** political discourse over the last
decade. At the same time, it is often perceived to have increased political polarization …

Reducing controversy by connecting opposing views

K Garimella, G De Francisci Morales, A Gionis… - Proceedings of the …, 2017‏ - dl.acm.org
Society is often polarized by controversial issues that split the population into groups with
opposing views. When such issues emerge on social media, we often observe the creation …

Network polarization, filter bubbles, and echo chambers: an annotated review of measures and reduction methods

R Interian, R G. Marzo, I Mendoza… - International …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Polarization arises when the underlying network connecting the members of a community or
society becomes characterized by highly connected groups with weak intergroup …