Modeling echo chambers and polarization dynamics in social networks

F Baumann, P Lorenz-Spreen, IM Sokolov… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
polarized state in our model is metastable and (for moderatepolarization and echo chambers
in online social media, we … is close to the empirically measured reciprocity values; see Ref. …

Modelling how social network algorithms can influence opinion polarization

HF de Arruda, FM Cardoso, GF de Arruda… - Information …, 2022 - Elsevier
social networks are polarization and echo chamber formation. The first is produced by the
movement of many individuals to go from a moderate opinion … , we propose a measure that is …

Effects of network heterogeneity on social media on opinion polarization among South Koreans: Focusing on fear and political orientation

J Lee, Y Choi - International Communication Gazette, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
… The objective of the present study was to investigate moderatingnetwork heterogeneity
and opinion polarization in social … study measured network heterogeneity on social media by …

A model of opinion and propagation structure polarization in social media

HA Prasetya, T Murata - Computational Social Networks, 2020 - Springer
… M-value is a simple measure of modality introduced by [34]. In this work, it is used to
measure the modality of the users’ final opinion distribution. Given a histogram x with n bins (…

Link recommendation algorithms and dynamics of polarization in online social networks

FP Santos, Y Lelkes, SA Levin - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
… , we find that connecting structurally dissimilar nodes moderates opinions. Overall, our study
sheds … This resembles the dispersion measure defined in refs. 92 and 93. We consider that …

Research on opinion polarization by big data analytics capabilities in online social networks

Y Xing, X Wang, C Qiu, Y Li, W He - Technology in Society, 2022 - Elsevier
… , measure and quantify online opinion polarization on the … relationship between social media
use and opinion polarization on … of how opinion polarization affects social media users. The …

Analyzing the impact of filter bubbles on social network polarization

U Chitra, C Musco - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
… administrator’s actions increase a standard measure of opinion polarization in these
graphs by 180% and 260%, respectively. This illustrates the formation of a “filter bubble" in a …

Quantifying ideological polarization on a network using generalized Euclidean distance

M Hohmann, K Devriendt, M Coscia - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
… Here, we propose a measure of ideological polarization that … components of ideological
polarization in social networks and an … We call these levels of polarizationmoderate” for several …

Social media networks, fake news, and polarization

M Azzimonti, M Fernandes - European journal of political economy, 2023 - Elsevier
… a challenge for social media users, moderators, and governmental … In this context, we study
a dynamic model of opinionnetworks, we can directly measure how homophily and other …

Reducing opinion polarization: Effects of exposure to similar people with differing political views

S Balietti, L Getoor, DG Goldstein… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
… (re)-design of social media platforms. Because many people … also, allowing us to measure
the interaction between focal … from low to moderate similarity than from moderate to high, partly …