Biased perceptions of public opinion don't define echo chambers but reveal systematic differences in political awareness. [PDF]
PLoS ONEEcho chambers are widely acknowledged as a feature of online discourse and current politics: a phenomenon arising when people selectively engage with like-minded others and are shielded from opposing ideas.
Crispin H V Cooper +2 more
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The geographic embedding of online echo chambers: Evidence from the Brexit campaign. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 This study explores the geographic dependencies of echo-chamber communication on Twitter during the Brexit campaign. We review the evidence positing that online interactions lead to filter bubbles to test whether echo chambers are restricted to online ...
Marco Bastos +2 more
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How to Find Orchestrated Trolls? A Case Study on Identifying Polarized Twitter Echo Chambers
Computers, 2023 Background: This study presents a graph-based, macro-scale, polarity-based, echo chamber detection approach for Twitter. Echo chambers are a concern as they can spread misinformation, and reinforce harmful stereotypes and biases in social networks ...
Nane Kratzke
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Depolarization of echo chambers by random dynamical nudge [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 In social networks, users often engage with like-minded peers. This selective exposure to opinions might result in echo chambers, i.e., political fragmentation and social polarization of user interactions. When echo chambers form, opinions have a bimodal
Christopher Brian Currin +2 more
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Quantifying echo chamber effects in information spreading over political communication networks [PDF]
EPJ Data Science, 2019 Echo chambers in online social networks, in which users prefer to interact only with ideologically-aligned peers, are believed to facilitate misinformation spreading and contribute to radicalize political discourse. In this paper, we gauge the effects of
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Entropy-based detection of Twitter echo chambers. [PDF]
PNAS Nexus, 2023 Echo chambers, i.e. clusters of users exposed to news and opinions in line with their previous beliefs, were observed in many online debates on social platforms. We propose a completely unbiased entropy-based method for detecting echo chambers.
Pratelli M, Saracco F, Petrocchi M.
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Hatemongers ride on echo chambers to escalate hate speech diffusion. [PDF]
PNAS Nexus, 2023 Recent years have witnessed a swelling rise of hateful and abusive content over online social networks. While detection and moderation of hate speech have been the early go-to countermeasures, the solution requires a deeper exploration of the dynamics of
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Social Media Polarization and Echo Chambers in the Context of COVID-19: Case Study [PDF]
JMIRx Med, 2021 BackgroundSocial media chatter in 2020 has been largely dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Existing research shows that COVID-19 discourse is highly politicized, with political preferences linked to beliefs and disbeliefs about ...
Julie Jiang, Xiang Ren, Emilio Ferrara
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Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2022 BackgroundSocial media provide an ideal medium for breeding and reinforcing vaccine hesitancy, especially during public health emergencies. Algorithmic recommendation–based technology along with users’ selective exposure and group
Dandan Wang, Yadong Zhou, Feicheng Ma
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The impact of health information echo chambers on older adults avoidance behavior: the mediating role of information fatigue and the moderating role of trait mindfulness. [PDF]
Front PsycholBackground In the digital media era, the prevalence of algorithm-driven content push has intensified the health information echo chambers phenomenon, characterized by excessive homogenization and overload of information.
Zhong F, Gu C.
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