Echo chambers in online social networks, whereby users' beliefs are reinforced by
interactions with like-minded peers and insulation from others' points of view, have been …

Echo chambers, ie, situations where one is exposed only to opinions that agree with their
own, are an increasing concern for the political discourse in many democratic countries. This …

Recent studies have shown that online users tend to select information adhering to their
system of beliefs, ignore information that does not, and join groups-ie, echo chambers …

In recent years, social media has become an important platform for political discourse, being
a site of both political conversations between voters and political advertisements from …

Despite their entertainment oriented purpose, social media changed the way users access
information, debate, and form their opinions. Recent studies, indeed, showed that users …

Echo chambers and opinion polarization recently quantified in several sociopolitical
contexts and across different social media raise concerns on their potential impact on the …

Affective polarization—growing animosity and hostility between political rivals—has become
increasingly characteristic of Western politics. While this phenomenon is well-documented …

Featured Application The framework proposed in this paper could be used to detect echo
chambers in a standard way across multiple online social networks (ie, leveraging features …

In the last decade, social media gained a very significant role in public debates, and despite
the many intrinsic difficulties of analyzing data streaming from on-line platforms that are …

Mass selection into groups of like-minded individuals may be fragmenting and polarizing
online society, particularly with respect to partisan differences,,–. However, our ability to …