?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Feprints.imtlucca.it%2F2277%2F&rft.title=Science+vs+Conspiracy%3A+collective+narratives+in+the+age+of+(mis)information&rft.creator=Bessi%2C+Alessandro&rft.creator=Coletto%2C+Mauro&rft.creator=Davidescu%2C+George+Alexandru&rft.creator=Scala%2C+Antonio&rft.creator=Caldarelli%2C+Guido&rft.creator=Quattrociocchi%2C+Walter&rft.subject=H+Social+Sciences+(General)&rft.subject=HA+Statistics&rft.description=The+large+availability+of+user+provided+contents+on+online+social+media+facilitates+people+aggregation+around+common+interests%2C+worldviews+and+narratives.+However%2C+in+spite+of+the+enthusiastic+rhetoric+about+the+so+called+%7B%5Cem+wisdom+of+crowds%7D%2C+unsubstantiated+rumors+--+as+alternative+explanation+to+main+stream+versions+of+complex+phenomena+--+find+on+the+Web+a+natural+medium+for+their+dissemination.+In+this+work+we+study%2C+on+a+sample+of+1.2+million+of+individuals%2C+how+information+related+to+very+distinct+narratives+--+i.e.+main+stream+scientific+and+alternative+news+--+are+consumed+on+Facebook.+Through+a+thorough+quantitative+analysis%2C+we+show+that+distinct+communities+with+similar+information+consumption+patterns+emerge+around+distinctive+narratives.+Moreover%2C+consumers+of+alternative+news+(mainly+conspiracy+theories)+result+to+be+more+focused+on+their+contents%2C+while+scientific+news+consumers+are+more+prone+to+comment+on+alternative+news.+We+conclude+our+analysis+testing+the+response+of+this+social+system+to+4709+troll+information+--+i.e.+parodistic+imitation+of+alternative+and+conspiracy+theories.+We+find+that%2C+despite+the+false+and+satirical+vein+of+news%2C+usual+consumers+of+conspiracy+news+are+the+most+prone+to+interact+with+them.+&rft.publisher=ArXiv&rft.date=2014-08&rft.type=Working+Paper&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.identifier=++Bessi%2C+Alessandro+and+Coletto%2C+Mauro+and+Davidescu%2C+George+Alexandru+and+Scala%2C+Antonio+and+Caldarelli%2C+Guido+and+Quattrociocchi%2C+Walter++Science+vs+Conspiracy%3A+collective+narratives+in+the+age+of+(mis)information.++Working+Paper++%23+%2F2014++++ArXiv+++++++(Unpublished)+++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F1408.1667