Bessi, Alessandro and Caldarelli, Guido and Del Vicario, Michela and Scala, Antonio and Quattrociocchi, Walter Social Determinants of Content Selection in the Age of (Mis)Information. In: Social Informatics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8851 . Springer, pp. 259-268. ISBN 978-3-319-13733-9 (2014)
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Despite the enthusiastic rhetoric about the so called collective intelligence, conspiracy theories – e.g. global warming induced by chemtrails or the link between vaccines and autism – find on the Web a natural medium for their dissemination. Users preferentially consume information according to their system of beliefs and the strife within users of opposite worldviews (e.g., scientific and conspiracist) may result in heated debates. In this work we provide a genuine example of information consumption on a set of 1.2 million of Facebook Italian users. We show by means of a thorough quantitative analysis that information supporting different worldviews – i.e. scientific and conspiracist news – are consumed in a comparable way. Moreover, we measure the effect of 4709 evidently false information (satirical version of conspiracist stories) and 4502 debunking memes (information aiming at contrasting unsubstantiated rumors) on polarized users of conspiracy claims.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | misinformation; collective narratives; crowd dynamics; information spreading |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Research Area: | Economics and Institutional Change |
| Depositing User: | Caterina Tangheroni |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Dec 2015 14:50 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Dec 2015 14:50 |
| URI: | http://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/2963 |
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