Unveiling the drivers of active participation in social media discourse

Scientific Reports, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(1)

Published: Feb. 10, 2025

The emergence of new public forums in the form online social media has introduced unprecedented challenges to discourse, including polarization, misinformation, and rise echo chambers. Existing research extensively examined these topics by focusing on active actions performed users, without accounting for share individuals who consume content actively interacting with it. In contrast, this study incorporates passive consumption data investigate prevalence participation discourse. We introduce a metric quantify engagement analyze over 17 million pieces linked polarized Twitter debate understand its relationship several features environments, such as chambers, coordinated behavior, political bias, source reliability. Our findings reveal significant proportion users interactions, underscoring importance considering also proxies analysis debates. Furthermore, we found that increased is primarily correlated presence multimedia unreliable news sources, rather than ideological stance producer, suggesting independent work highlights significance quantifying engagement, which influences platform feed algorithms and, consequently, development discussions. Moreover, it factors may encourage participation, can be utilized design more effective communication campaigns.

Language: Английский

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Towards the utilization of LLMs for misinformation modeling and detection. Comment on “LLMs and Generative Agent-Based Models for Complex Systems Research” by Lu et al.

Physics of Life Reviews, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 53, P. 22 - 23

Published: Feb. 27, 2025

Language: Английский

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Locked in echoes: unveiling the dynamics of social media echo chambers and Hindu radicalization targeting Muslim youth in Delhi

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 12(1)

Published: March 5, 2025

Language: Английский

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Polarization in social media

Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 130487 - 130487

Published: March 1, 2025

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Mitigating social polarization in video sharing platform using unbiased recommendation system: A case study of South Korea political youtube channels

Technology in Society, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 102881 - 102881

Published: March 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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