Echo chambers in online social networks: A systematic literature review

A Mahmoudi, D Jemielniak, L Ciechanowski - IEEE Access, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Echo chambers, a recent phenomenon in the realm of social networks, have garnered
significant attention from researchers due to their profound implications. Their role in …

Rebalancing social feed to minimize polarization and disagreement

F Cinus, A Gionis, F Bonchi - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
Social media have great potential for enabling public discourse on important societal issues.
However, adverse effects, such as polarization and echo chambers, greatly impact the …

Retrieval-augmented generation with graphs (graphrag)

H Han, Y Wang, H Shomer, K Guo, J Ding, Y Lei… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a powerful technique that enhances downstream
task execution by retrieving additional information, such as knowledge, skills, and tools from …

Discovering polarization niches via dense subgraphs with attractors and repulsers

A Fazzone, T Lanciano, R Denni… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - dl.acm.org
Detecting niches of polarization in social media is a first step towards deploying mitigation
strategies and avoiding radicalization. In this paper, we model polarization niches as close …

Reducing exposure to harmful content via graph rewiring

C Coupette, S Neumann, A Gionis - Proceedings of the 29th ACM …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
Most media content consumed today is provided by digital platforms that aggregate input
from diverse sources, where access to information is mediated by recommendation …

Causal Modeling of Climate Activism on Reddit

J Lenti, LM Aiello, C Monti, GDF Morales - arxiv preprint arxiv:2410.10562, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Climate activism is crucial in stimulating collective societal and behavioral change towards
sustainable practices through political pressure. Although multiple factors contribute to the …

Minimizing hitting time between disparate groups with shortcut edges

F Adriaens, H Wang, A Gionis - Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
Structural bias or segregation of networks refers to situations where two or more disparate
groups are present in the network, so that the groups are highly connected internally, but …

Polarization of autonomous generative AI agents under echo chambers

M Ohagi - arxiv preprint arxiv:2402.12212, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Online social networks often create echo chambers where people only hear opinions
reinforcing their beliefs. An echo chamber often generates polarization, leading to conflicts …

Engagement-Driven Content Generation with Large Language Models

E Coppolillo, M Minici, F Cinus, F Bonchi… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit significant persuasion capabilities in one-on-one
interactions, but their influence within social networks remains underexplored. This study …

Minimizing Polarization and Disagreement in the Friedkin-Johnsen Model with Unknown Innate Opinions

F Cinus, A Miyauchi, Y Kuroki, F Bonchi - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.16076, 2025‏ - arxiv.org
The bulk of the literature on opinion optimization in social networks adopts the Friedkin-
Johnsen (FJ) opinion dynamics model, in which the innate opinions of all nodes are known …