Drivers of social influence in the Twitter migration to Mastodon

LL Cava, LM Aiello, A Tagarelli - Scientific Reports, 2023‏ - nature.com
The migration of Twitter users to Mastodon following Elon Musk's acquisition presents a
unique opportunity to study collective behavior and gain insights into the drivers of …

Understanding the Features of Text-Image Posts and Their Received Social Support in Online Grief Support Communities

S Li, S Wu, T Liu, H Zhang, Q Guo… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - ojs.aaai.org
People in grief can create posts with text and images to disclose themselves and seek social
support in online grief support communities. Existing work largely focuses on understanding …

[HTML][HTML] Online posting effects: Unveiling the non-linear journeys of users in depression communities on Reddit

V Morini, S Citraro, E Sajno, M Sansoni, G Riva… - Computers in Human …, 2025‏ - Elsevier
Social media platforms have become pivotal as self-help forums, enabling individuals to
share personal experiences and seek support. However, on topics as sensitive as …

Characterizing information seeking events in health-related social discourse

O Sharif, M Basak, T Parvin, A Scharfstein… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - ojs.aaai.org
Social media sites have become a popular platform for individuals to seek and share health
information. Despite the progress in natural language processing for social media mining, a …

On the relation between opinion change and information consumption on reddit

F Petruzzellis, F Bonchi, GDF Morales… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - ojs.aaai.org
While much attention has been devoted to the causes of opinion change, little is known
about its consequences. Our study moves a first step in this direction by looking at Reddit …

[HTML][HTML] Examining the Gateway Hypothesis and Map** Substance Use Pathways on Social Media: Machine Learning Approach

Y Yuan, E Kasson, J Taylor… - JMIR Formative …, 2024‏ - formative.jmir.org
Background Substance misuse presents significant global public health challenges.
Understanding transitions between substance types and the timing of shifts to polysubstance …

On the Inference of Sociodemographics on Reddit

F Cinus, C Monti, P Bajardi, GDF Morales - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025‏ - arxiv.org
Inference of sociodemographic attributes of social media users is an essential step for
computational social science (CSS) research to link online and offline behavior. However …

Moral Judgments in Online Discourse are not Biased by Gender

L Betti, P Bajardi, GDF Morales - arxiv preprint arxiv:2408.12872, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
The interaction between social norms and gender roles prescribes gender-specific
behaviors that influence moral judgments. Here, we study how moral judgments are biased …

Exposure and Adoption of Social Dimensions During the Ukraine War

K Sliwa, AL Klug, E Kušen… - 2024 11th International …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates exposure and adoption of social media users to ten social
dimensions during the initial phase of the Ukrainian war. To this end, we analyze a dataset …

Burstiness in Emotions: A Case Study on Collective Affective Responses in Italian Soccer Fandoms

S Citraro, G Mauro, E Ferragina - … on Advances in Social Networks Analysis …, 2024‏ - Springer
The bursty nature of emotions is rarely investigated outside cognitive and psychological
studies. Therefore this work addresses a gap in the literature, investigating the phenomenon …