Algorithm-mediated social learning in online social networks

WJ Brady, JC Jackson, B Lindström… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2023‏ - cell.com
Human social learning is increasingly occurring on online social platforms, such as Twitter,
Facebook, and TikTok. On these platforms, algorithms exploit existing social-learning biases …

A survey of information cascade analysis: Models, predictions, and recent advances

F Zhou, X Xu, G Trajcevski, K Zhang - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2021‏ - dl.acm.org
The deluge of digital information in our daily life—from user-generated content, such as
microblogs and scientific papers, to online business, such as viral marketing and advertising …

Trends in US Adolescents' media use, 1976–2016: The rise of digital media, the decline of TV, and the (near) demise of print.

JM Twenge, GN Martin, BH Spitzberg - Psychology of Popular …, 2019‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Studies have produced conflicting results about whether digital media (the Internet, texting,
social media, and gaming) displace or complement use of older legacy media (print media …

Simplicial models of social contagion

I Iacopini, G Petri, A Barrat, V Latora - Nature communications, 2019‏ - nature.com
Complex networks have been successfully used to describe the spread of diseases in
populations of interacting individuals. Conversely, pairwise interactions are often not …

[كتاب][B] The discursive power of memes in digital culture: Ideology, semiotics, and intertextuality

BE Wiggins - 2019‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Shared, posted, tweeted, commented upon, and discussed online as well as off-line, internet
memes represent a new genre of online communication, and an understanding of their …

Beyond misinformation: Understanding and co** with the “post-truth” era

S Lewandowsky, UKH Ecker, J Cook - … of applied research in memory and …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
The terms “post-truth” and “fake news” have become increasingly prevalent in public
discourse over the last year. This article explores the growing abundance of misinformation …

The spread of low-credibility content by social bots

C Shao, GL Ciampaglia, O Varol, KC Yang… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
The massive spread of digital misinformation has been identified as a major threat to
democracies. Communication, cognitive, social, and computer scientists are studying the …

On the origins of memes by means of fringe web communities

S Zannettou, T Caulfield, J Blackburn… - Proceedings of the …, 2018‏ - dl.acm.org
Internet memes are increasingly used to sway and manipulate public opinion. This prompts
the need to study their propagation, evolution, and influence across the Web. In this paper …

Accelerating dynamics of collective attention

P Lorenz-Spreen, BM Mønsted, P Hövel… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
With news pushed to smart phones in real time and social media reactions spreading across
the globe in seconds, the public discussion can appear accelerated and temporally …

How the news media activate public expression and influence national agendas

G King, B Schneer, A White - Science, 2017‏ - science.org
We demonstrate that exposure to the news media causes Americans to take public stands
on specific issues, join national policy conversations, and express themselves publicly—all …