relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3554/
title: Users Polarization on Facebook and Youtube
creator: Bessi, Alessandro
creator: Zollo, Fabiana
creator: Del Vicario, Michela
creator: Puliga, Michelangelo
creator: Scala, Antonio
creator: Caldarelli, Guido
creator: Uzzi, Brian
creator: Quattrociocchi, Walter
subject: QC Physics
description: On social media algorithms for content promotion, accounting for users preferences, might limit the exposure to unsolicited contents. In this work, we study how the same contents (videos) are consumed on different platforms -- i.e. Facebook and YouTube -- over a sample of 12M of users. Our findings show that the same content lead to the formation of echo chambers, irrespective of the online social network and thus of the algorithm for content promotion. Finally, we show that the users' commenting patterns are accurate early predictors for the formation of echo-chambers.
publisher: arXiv
date: 2016
type: Working Paper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
rights: cc_by_nc
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3554/1/1604.02705v1.pdf
identifier:   Bessi, Alessandro and Zollo, Fabiana and Del Vicario, Michela and Puliga, Michelangelo and Scala, Antonio and Caldarelli, Guido and Uzzi, Brian and Quattrociocchi, Walter  Users Polarization on Facebook and Youtube.  Working Paper   arXiv       (Submitted)   
relation: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02705
relation: arXiv:1604.02705