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Opinion manipulation on Farsi Twitter
Scientific Reports, 2023 For Iranians and the Iranian diaspora, the Farsi Twittersphere provides an important alternative to state media and an outlet for political discourse. But this understudied online space has become an opinion manipulation battleground, with diverse actors
Amirhossein Farzam +4 more
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Social Insurance Networks [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 Based on administrative panel data from Norway, we examine how social insurance dependency spreads within neighborhoods, families, ethnic minorities, and among former schoolmates. We use a fixed effects methodology that accounts for endogenous group formation, contextual interactions, and time-constant as well as time-varying confounders.
Markussen, Simen, Røed, Knut
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Analysing the sensitivity of nestedness detection methods
Applied Network Science, 2017 Many bipartite and unipartite real-world networks display a nested structure. Examples pervade different disciplines: biological ecosystems (e.g. mutualistic networks), economic networks (e.g. manufactures and contractors networks) to financial networks (
Alexander Grimm, Claudio J. Tessone
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Measuring school children’s attitudes toward immigrants in Switzerland and Poland
Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences, 2020 For decades, social scientists have been interested in studying individual attitudes toward ethnic minorities or immigrants and their development over time. Whereas these attitudes have been commonly studied among adults, little is known about children’s
Charlotte Clara Becker +4 more
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Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 2021 Brazil has one of the highest rates of cases and deaths attributed to Covid-19 in the world. Two factors contributed to the high rates: the Brazilian government underestimated the pandemic and a large amount of disinformation was spread through social ...
Felipe Bonow Soares +4 more
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Social networks as inauthentic sociality [PDF]
, 2014 This article argues that social networks constitute an inauthentic form of sociality. The two component concepts of this claim, inauthenticity and sociality, are explored in order to avoid some widespread misinterpretations. Inauthenticity is examined on
Staehler, Tanja
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Information Filtering on Coupled Social Networks [PDF]
, 2014 In this paper, based on the coupled social networks (CSN), we propose a hybrid algorithm to nonlinearly integrate both social and behavior information of online users.
Fu, Yan +4 more
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Limits of Risk Predictability in a Cascading Alternating Renewal Process Model
Scientific Reports, 2017 Most risk analysis models systematically underestimate the probability and impact of catastrophic events (e.g., economic crises, natural disasters, and terrorism) by not taking into account interconnectivity and interdependence of risks.
Xin Lin +4 more
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The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 2020 Objectives The disruption and contraction of older adults’ social networks are among the less discussed consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our objective was to provide an evidence-based commentary on racial/ethnic disparities in social network ...
G. Gauthier +4 more
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Microbial "social networks" [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2015 It is well understood that distinct communities of bacteria are present at different sites of the body, and that changes in the structure of these communities have strong implications for human health. Yet, challenges remain in understanding the complex interconnections between the bacterial taxa within these microbial communities and how they change ...
Fernandez, Mitch +4 more
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