eprintid: 2552
rev_number: 10
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datestamp: 2015-02-02 10:25:24
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type: monograph
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Del Vicario, Michela
creators_name: Zhang, Qian
creators_name: Bessi, Alessandro
creators_name: Zollo, Fabiana
creators_name: Scala, Antonio
creators_name: Caldarelli, Guido
creators_name: Quattrociocchi, Walter
creators_id: michela.delvicario@imtlucca.it
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creators_id: 
creators_id: fabiana.zollo@imtlucca.it
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creators_id: guido.caldarelli@imtlucca.it
creators_id: walter.quattrociocchi@imtlucca.it
title: Structural patterns of the occupy movement on Facebook
ispublished: submitted
subjects: H1
subjects: HM
subjects: QA75
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
monograph_type: working_paper
keywords: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
abstract: 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. 
date: 2015-01
date_type: published
number:  
publisher: ArXiv
pages: 10
institution: IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
official_url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.07203
citation:   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)