A5007532556- Social Media and Politics
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Media Influence and Politics
- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Complex Network Analysis Techniques
- Topic Modeling
- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- Advanced Data Processing Techniques
University of Duisburg-Essen
2019-2022
Network Technologies (United States)
2020
When addressing public concerns such as the existence of politically like-minded communication spaces in social media, analyses complex political discourses are met with increasing methodological challenges to process data properly. To address extent like-mindedness online communication, we argue that it is necessary focus not only on ideological homogeneity environments, but also which specific questions discussed a uniform manner. This study proposes an innovative combination computational...
The use of social media to disseminate extreme political content on the web, especially right-wing populist propaganda, is no longer a rarity in today's life. Recommendation systems platforms, which provide personalized filtering content, can contribute users forming homogeneous cocoons around themselves. This study investigates YouTube's recommendations system based 1,663 German videos order analyze homogeneity related content. After examining two datasets (right-wing and politically...
Abstract Social media has become important in shaping the public discourse on controversial topics. Many businesses therefore monitor different social channels and try to react adequately a potentially harmful opinion climate. Still, little is known about how opinions form an increasingly connected world. The spiral of silence theory provides way explaining deviations between perceived climate true beliefs public. However, emergence hard observe because only thoughts those who express their...
Abstract Opinion leaders (OLs) are becoming increasingly relevant on social networking sites as their visibility can help to shape followers’ attitudes toward a variety of issues. While earlier research provided initial evidence the effect OLs using agent-based modeling, it remains unclear how affect network environment and, therefore, opinion climate when: (a) they publicly hold ambivalent attitudes, and (b) not only express support for own stance but also discredit or ‘debunk’ opposing...
When addressing public concerns such as the existence of politically like-minded communication spaces in social media, analyses complex political discourses are met with increasing methodological challenges to process data properly. To address extent like-mindedness online communication, we argue that it is necessary focus not only on ideological homogeneity environments, but also which specific questions discussed a uniform manner. This study proposes an innovative combination computational...