eprintid: 3488
rev_number: 9
eprint_status: archive
userid: 6
dir: disk0/00/00/34/88
datestamp: 2016-05-23 09:41:18
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type: conference_item
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creators_name: Bessi, Alessandro
creators_name: Coletto, Mauro
creators_name: Davidescu, George Alexandru
creators_name: Scala, Antonio
creators_name: Quattrociocchi, Walter
creators_id: 
creators_id: mauro.coletto@imtlucca.it
creators_id: 
creators_id: 
creators_id: walter.quattrociocchi@imtlucca.it
title: Misinformation in the loop: the emergence of
narratives in Online Social Networks
ispublished: pub
subjects: QA75
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: public
pres_type: paper
keywords: misinformation, collective narratives, crowd dynamics, information spreading.
note: Published in "itAIS proceedings - CeRSI"
abstract: The interlink between information and belief formation and
revision is a fundamental aspect of social dynamics. The growth of knowledge
fostered by a hyper-connected world together with the unprecedented
acceleration of scientific progress has exposed individuals, governments
and countries to an increasing level of complexity to explain
reality and its phenomena. Despite the enthusiastic rhetoric about the so
called collective intelligence, conspiracy theories and other unsubstantiated
claims find on the Web a natural medium for their diffusion. Cases
in which these kinds of false information are used in political debates
are far from unimaginable. In this work, we study the behavior of users
supporting different (and opposite) worldviews – i.e. scientific and conspiracist
thinking – that commented the posts of the Facebook page
of a large italian political party that advocates direct democracy and
e-Participation. We find that users supporting different narratives consume
political information in a similar way. Moreover, by analyzing the
composition of users active on the page in terms of commenting activity,
we notice that almost one fifth of them is represented by polarized consumers
of conspiracy stories, and those are able to generate almost one
third of total comments to the posts of the page
date: 2014
date_type: published
pagerange: 1-14
event_title: XI Conference of the Italian Chapter of AIS Digital Innovation and Inclusive Knowledge in Times of Change
event_location: Genova, Italy
event_dates: 21-22 November 2014
event_type: conference
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-88-6685-008-3
book_title: itAIS proceedings
official_url: http://www.cersi.it/itais2014/pdf/16.pdf
citation:   Bessi, Alessandro and Coletto, Mauro and Davidescu, George Alexandru and Scala, Antonio and Quattrociocchi, Walter  Misinformation in the loop: the emergence of narratives in Online Social Networks.  In: XI Conference of the Italian Chapter of AIS Digital Innovation and Inclusive Knowledge in Times of Change, 21-22 November 2014, Genova, Italy pp. 1-14.  ISBN 978-88-6685-008-3.      (2014)  
document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3488/1/16.pdf