eprintid: 2963
rev_number: 6
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datestamp: 2015-12-03 14:50:46
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creators_name: Bessi, Alessandro
creators_name: Caldarelli, Guido
creators_name: Del Vicario, Michela
creators_name: Scala, Antonio
creators_name: Quattrociocchi, Walter
creators_id: 
creators_id: guido.caldarelli@imtlucca.it
creators_id: michela.delvicario@imtlucca.it
creators_id: 
creators_id: walter.quattrociocchi@imtlucca.it
title: Social Determinants of Content Selection in the Age of (Mis)Information
ispublished: pub
subjects: H1
subjects: QA75
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
keywords: misinformation; collective narratives; crowd dynamics; information spreading
abstract: 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.
date: 2014
date_type: published
series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
volume: 8851
publisher: Springer
pagerange: 259-268
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-3-319-13733-9
book_title: Social Informatics
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13734-6_18
citation:   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)