TY - JOUR
T1 - Users polarization on Facebook and Youtube
AU - Bessi, Alessandro
AU - Zollo, Fabiana
AU - Del Vicario, Michela
AU - Puliga, Michelangelo
AU - Scala, Antonio
AU - Caldarelli, Guido
AU - Uzzi, Brian
AU - Quattrociocchi, Walter
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Bessi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2016/8
Y1 - 2016/8
N2 - Users online tend to select information that support and adhere their beliefs, and to form polarized groups sharing the same view - e.g. echo chambers. Algorithms for content promotion may favour this phenomenon, by accounting for users preferences and thus limiting the exposure to unsolicited contents. To shade light on this question, we perform a comparative study on how same contents (videos) are consumed on different online social media - i.e. Facebook and YouTube - over a sample of 12M of users. Our findings show that content drives the emergence of echo chambers on both platforms. Moreover, we show that the users' commenting patterns are accurate predictors for the formation of echo-chambers.
AB - Users online tend to select information that support and adhere their beliefs, and to form polarized groups sharing the same view - e.g. echo chambers. Algorithms for content promotion may favour this phenomenon, by accounting for users preferences and thus limiting the exposure to unsolicited contents. To shade light on this question, we perform a comparative study on how same contents (videos) are consumed on different online social media - i.e. Facebook and YouTube - over a sample of 12M of users. Our findings show that content drives the emergence of echo chambers on both platforms. Moreover, we show that the users' commenting patterns are accurate predictors for the formation of echo-chambers.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0159641
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0159641
M3 - Article
C2 - 27551783
AN - SCOPUS:84984794012
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 11
JO - PloS one
JF - PloS one
IS - 8
M1 - e0159641
ER -