Social media are often accused of worsening the quality of online debate. In this paper, we
focus on group polarization in the context of social media-enabled interaction, a …

Social media provides its users with uninterrupted access to information for a variety of
matters. On the one hand, social media helps people to express themselves freely and …

This article introduces the Twitter Parliamentarian Database (TPD), a multi-source and
manually validated database of parliamentarians on Twitter. The TPD includes …

As part of the “text-as-data” movement, Natural Language Processing (NLP) provides a
computational way to examine political polarization. We conducted a methodological …

Most existing methods for detecting fraudulent news or other forms of disinformation
primarily rely on user profiling or content analysis, determining whether a given article aligns …

This study examines the Twitter rivalry of two groups of the alt-Right and antifascist
movement to understand how certain appeals, launched through social media, may promote …

These days, people have increasingly used social media as a go-to resource for any
information need and daily news diet. In the past decade, the news ecosystem and …

Due to its rapid spread over social media and the societal threat of changing public opinion,
fake news has gained massive attention. Users' role in disseminating fake news has …

Wordscores is a popular computational text analysis method with numerous applications in
communication research. Wordscores claims to scale documents on specified dimensions …

There have been several attempts to support political engagement through novel social
media services. While the political nature of any technologies is widely acknowledged in …