Studying fake news spreading, polarisation dynamics, and manipulation by bots: A tale of networks and language

G Ruffo, A Semeraro, A Giachanou, P Rosso - Computer science review, 2023 - Elsevier
With the explosive growth of online social media, the ancient problem of information
disorders interfering with news diffusion has surfaced with a renewed intensity threatening …

Emotional profiling and cognitive networks unravel how mainstream and alternative press framed AstraZeneca, Pfizer and COVID-19 vaccination campaigns

A Semeraro, S Vilella, G Ruffo, M Stella - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
COVID-19 vaccines have been largely debated by the press. To understand how
mainstream and alternative media debated vaccines, we introduce a paradigm …

Cognitive Networks Extract Insights on COVID-19 Vaccines from English and Italian Popular Tweets: Anticipation, Logistics, Conspiracy and Loss of Trust

M Stella, MS Vitevitch, F Botta - Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Monitoring social discourse about COVID-19 vaccines is key to understanding how large
populations perceive vaccination campaigns. This work reconstructs how popular and …

Multidisciplinary approaches to mis-and disinformation studies

A Pavliuc, A George, F Spezzano… - Social Media+ …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Related to this, there is the question of regulation and intervention. How should the problem
of misinformation be solved? Solutions emerging out of technical disciplines are increasing …

Natural language processing and cognitive networks identify UK Insurers' trends in investor day transcripts

S Claus, M Stella - Future Internet, 2022 - mdpi.com
The ability to spot key ideas, trends, and relationships between them in documents is key to
financial services, such as banks and insurers. Identifying patterns across vast amounts of …

[PDF][PDF] Surveying the research on fake news in social media: a tale of networks and language

G Ruffo, A Semeraro, A Giachanou… - CoRR, abs …, 2021 - ask.qcloudimg.com
The history of journalism and news diffusion is tightly coupled with the effort to dispel
hoaxes, misinformation, propaganda, unverified rumours, poor reporting, and messages …

[HTML][HTML] Parasocial diffusion: K-pop fandoms help drive COVID-19 public health messaging on social media

HCH Chang, B Pham, E Ferrara - Online Social Networks and Media, 2023 - Elsevier
We examine an unexpected but significant source of positive public health messaging
during the COVID-19 pandemic—K-pop fandoms. Leveraging more than 7 million tweets …

Writing about COVID-19 vaccines: Emotional profiling unravels how mainstream and alternative press framed AstraZeneca, Pfizer and vaccination campaigns

A Semeraro, S Vilella, G Ruffo, M Stella - arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.07538, 2022 - arxiv.org
Since their announcement in November 2020, COVID-19 vaccines were largely debated by
the press and social media. With most studies focusing on COVID-19 disinformation in social …

A Multi-Linguistic Fake news detector on Hindi, Marathi and Telugu

CB Thaokar, M Rathod, S Ahmed… - 2022 OITS …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays the use of the internet to read news is becoming much more common than our
conventional way of reading newspapers, due to this fake news articles are increasing on …

[HTML][HTML] Introducing mindset streams to investigate stances towards STEM in high school students and experts

K Brian, M Stella - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
We introduce mindset streams for assessing ways of bridging two target concepts in concept
maps. We focus on behavioural forma mentis networks (BFMN), which map the associative …