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Echo chambers and viral misinformation: Modeling fake news as complex contagion. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The viral spread of digital misinformation has become so severe that the World Economic Forum considers it among the main threats to human society. This spread have been suggested to be related to the similarly problematized phenomenon of "echo chambers",
Petter Törnberg
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Vaccine Hesitancy in Taiwan: Temporal, Multilayer Network Study of Echo Chambers Shaped by Influential Users [PDF]
Online Journal of Public Health InformaticsBackgroundVaccine hesitancy is a growing global health threat that is increasingly studied through the monitoring and analysis of social media platforms.
Jason Dean-Chen Yin
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Recursive patterns in online echo chambers. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 AbstractDespite their entertainment oriented purpose, social media changed the way users access information, debate, and form their opinions. Recent studies, indeed, showed that users online tend to promote their favored narratives and thus to form polarized
Brugnoli E +3 more
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Large networks of rational agents form persistent echo chambers [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2018 Echo chambers (ECs) are enclosed epistemic circles where like-minded people communicate and reinforce pre-existing beliefs. It remains unclear if cognitive errors are necessarily required for ECs to emerge, and then how ECs are able to persist in ...
Jens Koed Madsen +2 more
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How Many People Live in Politically Partisan Online News Echo Chambers in Different Countries?
Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2021 Concern over online news echo chambers has been a consistent theme in recent debates on how people get news and information. Yet, we lack a basic descriptive understanding of how many people occupy bounded online news spaces in different countries ...
Richard Fletcher +2 more
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How I learned to hate you. Parasocial interactions in echo chambers and their spillover effects
methaodos.revista de ciencias sociales, 2023 This article analyzes the most influential posts on Facebook related to COVID-19, for the first two years of the pandemic, to explain how parasocial opinion leaders created echo chambers, in the Romanian public sphere, and to discuss the cumulative ...
Raluca-Nicoleta Radu
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Krisis, 2021 In this article, I call attention to the relation between populist rhetoric and the creation and reinforcement of echo chambers. Looking at the case of the Italian anti-vaccination movement, I demonstrate that populist rhetoric has reshaped the echo ...
Natascha Rietdijk
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Users Polarization on Facebook and Youtube. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Users online tend to select information that support and adhere their beliefs, and to form polarized groups sharing the same view-e.g. echo chambers. Algorithms for content promotion may favour this phenomenon, by accounting for users preferences and ...
Alessandro Bessi +7 more
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Echo chamber effects on short video platforms
Scientific Reports, 2023 In recent years, short videos have become an increasingly vital source of information. To compete for users’ attention, short video platforms have been overusing algorithmic technology, making the group polarization intensify, which is likely to push ...
Yichang Gao, Fengming Liu, Lei Gao
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The Review of Financial Studies, 2020 AbstractWe find evidence of selective exposure to confirmatory information among 400,000 users on the investor social network StockTwits. Self-described bulls are five times more likely to follow a user with a bullish view of the same stock than are self-described bears.
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