Political discussions in homogeneous and cross-cutting communication spaces

J An, H Kwak, O Posegga, A Jungherr - Proceedings of the International …, 2019 - aaai.org
Online platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit, provide users with a rich set of
features for sharing and consuming political information, expressing political opinions, and …

Clear and omnipresent danger: Digital age culture wars and reactions to drag queen story hour across diverse subreddit communities

AJ Davis, HH Kettrey - Social Currents, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The culture wars, or battle between American conservatives and progressives to define
national values, appeared to be in abeyance until they were seemingly reignited by Donald …

BERTs of a feather: Studying inter-and intra-group communication via information theory and language models

ZP Rosen, R Dale - Behavior Research Methods, 2024 - Springer
When communicating, individuals alter their language to fulfill a myriad of social functions. In
particular, linguistic convergence and divergence are fundamental in establishing and …

Deplatforming Norm-Violating Influencers on Social Media Reduces Overall Online Attention Toward Them

MH Ribeiro, S Jhaver, M Reignier-Tayar… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
From politicians to podcast hosts, online platforms have systematically banned
(``deplatformed'') influential users for breaking platform guidelines. Previous inquiries on the …

From the stage to the audience: Propaganda on reddit

O Balalau, R Horincar - EACL 2021-16th Conference of the …, 2021 - inria.hal.science
Political discussions revolve around ideological conflicts that often split the audience into
two opposing parties. Both parties try to win the argument by bringing forward information …

Learning ideological embeddings from information cascades

C Monti, G Manco, C Aslay, F Bonchi - Proceedings of the 30th ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Modeling information cascades in a social network through the lenses of the ideological
leaning of its users can help understanding phenomena such as misinformation propagation …

[PDF][PDF] “His Tweets Speak for Themselves”: An Analysis of Donald Trump's Twitter Behavior

S Elayan, M Sykora, T Jackson - The International Journal of …, 2020 - repository.lboro.ac.uk
We used computational tools to explore president Donald Trump's tweeting habits and some
of the effects they have on his Twitter followers as well as a small sample of mainstream …

Anti-latinx computational propaganda in the United States

C Flores-Saviaga, S Savage - arxiv preprint arxiv:1906.10736, 2019 - arxiv.org
Given that the Latino community is the second largest ethnic group in the US, an
understanding of how Latinos are discussed and targeted on social media during US …

Genetic discrimination views in online discussion forums: Perspectives from Canadian forumites

G Dalpé, M Pinkesz, E Oliviero… - Journal of Genetic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advancements in genetic technologies have made genetic information increasingly
sought out in a wide range of non‐therapeutic contexts, which has increased the risk that …

Fine grained classification of polarized and propagandist text in news articles and political debates

V Vorakitphan - 2021 - theses.hal.science
In recent years, disinformation has become more viral, mainly due to its spread online on
social media, leading to potential threatening consequences for the society. Heterogeneous …