A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy

P Lorenz-Spreen, L Oswald, S Lewandowsky… - Nature human …, 2023 - nature.com
One of today's most controversial and consequential issues is whether the global uptake of
digital media is causally related to a decline in democracy. We conducted a systematic …

The four dimensions of social network analysis: An overview of research methods, applications, and software tools

D Camacho, A Panizo-LLedot, G Bello-Orgaz… - Information …, 2020 - Elsevier
Social network based applications have experienced exponential growth in recent years.
One of the reasons for this rise is that this application domain offers a particularly fertile …

What Tweets and YouTube comments have in common? Sentiment and graph analysis on data related to US elections 2020

A Shevtsov, M Oikonomidou, D Antonakaki… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Most studies analyzing political traffic on Social Networks focus on a single platform, while
campaigns and reactions to political events produce interactions across different social …

A survey on extremism analysis using natural language processing: definitions, literature review, trends and challenges

J Torregrosa, G Bello-Orgaz… - Journal of Ambient …, 2023 - Springer
Extremism has grown as a global problem for society in recent years, especially after the
apparition of movements such as jihadism. This and other extremist groups have taken …

Platformed antisemitism on Twitter: Anti-Jewish rhetoric in political discourse surrounding the 2018 US midterm election

MJ Riedl, K Joseff, S Soorholtz… - new media & …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
What does antisemitism look like in the context of political discussions on Twitter? In this
article, we introduce the notion of platformed antisemitism. We first define it as a platform …

Analyzing the relationship between relevance and extremist discourse in an alt-right network on Twitter

J Torregrosa, Á Panizo-Lledot, G Bello-Orgaz… - Social Network Analysis …, 2020 - Springer
Nowadays, Twitter is used by several political extremist groups to establish close
communities on which the opinions are amplified following an echo-chamber effect …

Proof of biased behavior of Normalized Mutual Information

A Mahmoudi, D Jemielniak - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Normalized Mutual Information (NMI) metric is widely utilized in the evaluation
of clustering and community detection algorithms. This study explores the performance of …

A systemic functional linguistics approach to analyzing white supremacist and conspiratorial discourse on YouTube

O Inwood, M Zappavigna - … Societal Threats During Times of Deep …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
Since the 2016 US Presidential Election, extreme right-wing communities have gained
extensive popularity on YouTube, spreading discourses of white supremacy and conspiracy …

Market response to racial uprisings

BA Ba, R Rivera, A Whitefield - 2023 - nber.org
Do investors anticipate that demands for racial equity will impact companies? We explore
this question in the context of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement—the largest racially …

Transformer-based identification of stochastic information cascades in social networks using text and image similarity

P Kasnesis, R Heartfield, X Liang, L Toumanidis… - Applied Soft …, 2021 - Elsevier
Identifying the origin of information posted on social media and how this may have changed
over time can be very helpful to users in determining whether they trust it or not. This …