Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

It is a fundamental challenge to understand how the function of a network is related to its
structural organization. Adaptive dynamical networks represent a broad class of systems that …

Social media may limit the exposure to diverse perspectives and favor the formation of
groups of like-minded users framing and reinforcing a shared narrative, that is, echo …

We address the diffusion of information about the COVID-19 with a massive data analysis on
Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit and Gab. We analyze engagement and interest in the …

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 …

The world of today presents a duality of phenomenal progress and persistent ills. Amid such
existential contradictions, public deliberation forms one of the central pillars of a functional …

Public opinion is shaped in significant part by online content, spread via social media and
curated algorithmically. The current online ecosystem has been designed predominantly to …

A multiagent system should be capable of fast and flexible decision-making to successfully
manage the uncertainty, variability, and dynamic change encountered when operating in the …

Vaccine hesitancy is currently recognized by the WHO as a major threat to global health.
Recently, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a growing interest in …

Echo chambers in online social networks, whereby users' beliefs are reinforced by
interactions with like-minded peers and insulation from others' points of view, have been …