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datestamp: 2017-04-18 08:35:43
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type: article
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creators_name: Schmidt, Ana Lucía
creators_name: Zollo, Fabiana
creators_name: Del Vicario, Michela
creators_name: Bessi, Alessandro
creators_name: Scala, Antonio
creators_name: Caldarelli, Guido
creators_name: Stanley, H. Eugene
creators_name: Quattrociocchi, Walter
creators_id: 
creators_id: fabiana.zollo@imtlucca.it
creators_id: michela.delvicario@imtlucca.it
creators_id: 
creators_id: 
creators_id: guido.caldarelli@imtlucca.it
creators_id: 
creators_id: walter.quattrociocchi@imtlucca.it
title: Anatomy of news consumption on Facebook
ispublished: pub
subjects: H1
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: none
abstract: The advent of social media and microblogging platforms has radically changed the way we consume information and form opinions. In this paper, we explore the anatomy of the information space on Facebook by characterizing on a global scale the news consumption patterns of 376 million users over a time span of 6 y (January 2010 to December 2015). We find that users tend to focus on a limited set of pages, producing a sharp community structure among news outlets. We also find that the preferences of users and news providers differ. By tracking how Facebook pages “like” each other and examining their geolocation, we find that news providers are more geographically confined than users. We devise a simple model of selective exposure that reproduces the observed connectivity patterns.
date: 2017
date_type: published
publication: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
volume: 114
number: 12
publisher: National Academy of Science
pagerange: 3035-3039
id_number: 10.1073/pnas.1617052114
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1091-6490
official_url: http://www.pnas.org/content/114/12/3035.abstract
citation:   Schmidt, Ana Lucía and Zollo, Fabiana and Del Vicario, Michela and Bessi, Alessandro and Scala, Antonio and Caldarelli, Guido and Stanley, H. Eugene and Quattrociocchi, Walter  Anatomy of news consumption on Facebook.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114 (12).  pp. 3035-3039.  ISSN 1091-6490      (2017)