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In defense of (some) online echo chambers
In this article, I argue that online echo chambers are in some cases and in some respects good. I do not attempt to refute arguments that they are...
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EchoSense: a framework for analyzing the echo chambers phenomenon: a case study on Qatar events
The impact of social media on information exchange is profound, providing valuable access to public information, but it can also intensify negative...
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Quantifying Opinion Rejection: A Method to Detect Social Media Echo Chambers
Social media echo chambers are known to be common sources of misinformation and harmful ideologies that have detrimental impacts on society....
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Invasiveness, Intrusiveness and Influence: three new metrics to measure communication between political digital echo chambers
The contemporary debate about the place and role of political digital echo chambers (DPECs) in political communication relies more on assumptions,...
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Investigating the effect of selective exposure, audience fragmentation, and echo-chambers on polarization in dynamic media ecosystems
The degree of polarization in many societies has become a pressing concern in media studies. Typically, it is argued that the internet and social...
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Overview of the Twitter conversation around #14F 2021 Catalonia regional election: an analysis of echo chambers and presence of social bots
The omnipresence of the digital ecosystem makes it increasingly important in our societies, which implies that the analysis and study of the digital...
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Cumulative Polarization: Patterns of Accumulation of Neutral and Politicized Echo Chambers on Russian Twitter
Opinion cumulation on social networks has been widely researched upon; however, we still lack knowledge on its dynamics. In particular, political...
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BeECD: Belief-Aware Echo Chamber Detection over Twitter Stream
The phenomenon known as the “echo chamber” has been widely acknowledged as a significant force affecting society. This has been particularly evident...
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Yes, Echo-Chambers Mislead You Too: A Game-Based Educational Experience to Reveal the Impact of Social Media Personalization Algorithms
We present a digital media literacy activity composed of (i) an educational talk and (ii) a game-based activity. The aim is to support teachers in...
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Echo chamber detection and analysis
Social media allow to fulfill perceived social needs such as connecting with friends or other individuals with similar interests into virtual...
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Homophily and polarization on political twitter during the 2017 Norwegian election
Ideological homophily on social media has been receiving increased scholarly interest, as it is associated with the formation of filter bubbles, echo...
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Recommendation Systems as Social Determinants of Health
Recommendation systems operate as underlying algorithms in social media platforms, e-commerce websites, online news websites, community forums, and...
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Beyond the echo chamber: modelling open-mindedness in citizens’ assemblies
A Citizens’ assembly (CA) is a democratic innovation tool where a randomly selected group of citizens deliberate a topic over multiple rounds to...
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Constructed Truths Truth and Knowledge in a Post-truth World
In a world in which more and more fake news is being spread, it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish truth from lies, knowledge from...
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Post-Truth Phenomenology
Post-truth refers to a condition in which truth is no longer respected, facts are no longer acknowledged, and people increasingly judge according to...
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Using Emotions and Topics to Understand Online Misinformation
Misinformation has become one of the most pressing social issues in the twenty-first century. How the combinations of emotions and topics trigger the...
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Quantifying echo chamber effects in information spreading over political communication networks
Echo chambers in online social networks, in which users prefer to interact only with ideologically-aligned peers, are believed to facilitate...
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The Impact of the Internet and Social Media Platforms on Radicalisation to Terrorism and Violent Extremism
This chapter critically discusses the evidence suggesting that the Internet and SMPs affect radicalisation to violent extremism. The chapter...
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Moving Beyond Benchmarks and Competitions: Towards Addressing Social Media Challenges in an Educational Context
Natural language processing and other areas of artificial intelligence have seen staggering progress in recent years, yet much of this is reported...
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GEMTrans: A General, Echocardiography-Based, Multi-level Transformer Framework for Cardiovascular Diagnosis
Echocardiography (echo) is an ultrasound imaging modality that is widely used for various cardiovascular diagnosis tasks. Due to inter-observer...