Scholarly efforts to understand conspiracy theories have grown significantly in recent years,
and there is now a broad and interdisciplinary literature. In reviewing this body of work, we …

Policymakers, scholars, and practitioners have all called attention to the issue of
misinformation in the climate change debate. But what is climate change misinformation …

Do echo chambers actually exist on social media? By focusing on how both Italian and US
Facebook users relate to two distinct narratives (involving conspiracy theories and science) …

The large availability of user provided contents on online social media facilitates people
aggregation around shared beliefs, interests, worldviews and narratives. In spite of the …

Which topics spark the most heated debates on social media? Identifying those topics is not
only interesting from a societal point of view but also allows the filtering and aggregation of …

Users online tend to select information that support and adhere their beliefs, and to form
polarized groups sharing the same view—eg echo chambers. Algorithms for content …

According to the World Economic Forum, the diffusion of unsubstantiated rumors on online
social media is one of the main threats for our society. The disintermediated paradigm of …

In online social networks, users tend to select information that adhere to their system of
beliefs and to form polarized groups of like minded people. Polarization as well as its effects …

The unprecedented rate of global, technological, and societal change calls for a radical, new
understanding of literacy. This book offers a nuanced framework for making sense of literacy …

Social media enabled a direct path from producer to consumer of contents changing the way
users get informed, debate, and shape their worldviews. Such a disintermediation might …