Del Vicario, Michela and Zhang, Qian and Bessi, Alessandro and Zollo, Fabiana and Scala, Antonio and Caldarelli, Guido and Quattrociocchi, Walter Structural patterns of the occupy movement on Facebook. Working Paper # /2015 ArXiv (Submitted)
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In this work we study a peculiar example of social organization on Facebook: the Occupy Movement -- i.e., an international protest movement against social and economic inequality organized online at a city level. We consider 179 US Facebook public pages during the time period between September 2011 and February 2013. The dataset includes 618K active users and 753K posts that received about 5.2M likes and 1.1M comments. By labeling user according to their interaction patterns on pages -- e.g., a user is considered to be polarized if she has at least the 95% of her likes on a specific page -- we find that activities are not locally coordinated by geographically close pages, but are driven by pages linked to major US cities that act as hubs within the various groups. Such a pattern is verified even by extracting the backbone structure -- i.e., filtering statistically relevant weight heterogeneities -- for both the pages-reshares and the pages-common users networks.
| Item Type: | Working Paper (Working Paper) |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Social and Information Networks (cs.SI); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Research Area: | Economics and Institutional Change |
| Depositing User: | Ms T. Iannizzi |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Feb 2015 10:25 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Feb 2015 10:25 |
| URI: | http://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/2552 |
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