relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2552/
title: Structural patterns of the occupy movement on Facebook
creator: Del Vicario, Michela
creator: Zhang, Qian
creator: Bessi, Alessandro
creator: Zollo, Fabiana
creator: Scala, Antonio
creator: Caldarelli, Guido
creator: Quattrociocchi, Walter
subject: H Social Sciences (General)
subject: HM Sociology
subject: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
description: 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. 
publisher: ArXiv
date: 2015-01
type: Working Paper
type: NonPeerReviewed
identifier:   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)   
relation: http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.07203