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 …

Networked partisanship and framing: a socio-semantic network analysis of the Italian debate on migration

T Radicioni, T Squartini, E Pavan, F Saracco - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The huge amount of data made available by the massive usage of social media has opened
up the unprecedented possibility to carry out a data-driven study of political processes …

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 …

Framework for social media analysis based on hashtag research

L Pilař, L Kvasničková Stanislavská, R Kvasnička… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Social networks have become a common part of many people's daily lives. Users spend
more and more time on these platforms and create an active and passive digital footprint …

Gender-specific homophily on Instagram and implications on information spread

YA Pignolet, S Schmid, A Seelisch - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
More and more social interactions happen online. On online social networks such as
Instagram, millions of users share, like, and comment on photos and videos every day …

[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 …

A multi-platform analysis of political news discussion and sharing on web communities

Y Wang, S Zannettou, J Blackburn… - … Conference on Big …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The news ecosystem encompasses a wide range of sources with varying levels of
trustworthiness, and with public commentary giving different spins to the same stories. In this …

From the Syrian to Ukrainian refugee crisis: Tracing the changes in the Italian Twitter discussions through network analysis

S Kiyak, D De Coninck, S Mertens, L d'Haenens - Communications, 2024 - degruyter.com
This study examines the Italian Twitter landscape during the 2015 Syrian and 2022
Ukrainian refugee crises, with a focus on the evolution of anti-refugee discourse. Through …

Understanding anti-immigration sentiment spreading on Twitter

A Nasuto, F Rowe - PloS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Immigration is one of the most salient topics in public debate. Social media heavily
influences opinions on immigration, often sparking polarized debates and offline tensions …

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 …