no code implementations • 1 Sep 2022 • Arthur Capozzi, Alfonso Semeraro, Giancarlo Ruffo
Signed networks and balance theory provide a natural setting for real-world scenarios that show polarization dynamics, positive/negative relationships, and political partisanship.
no code implementations • 19 Jan 2022 • Alfonso Semeraro, Salvatore Vilella, Giancarlo Ruffo, Massimo Stella
Our findings expose crucial aspects of the emotional narratives around COVID-19 vaccines adopted by the press, highlighting the need to understand how alternative and mainstream media report vaccination news.
no code implementations • 13 Sep 2021 • Giancarlo Ruffo, Alfonso Semeraro, Anastasia Giachanou, Paolo Rosso
With the explosive growth of online social media, the ancient problem of information disorders interfering with news diffusion has surfaced with a renewed intensity threatening our democracies, public health, and news outlets' credibility.
1 code implementation • 19 Apr 2021 • Alfonso Semeraro, Salvatore Vilella, Giancarlo Ruffo
The increasing availability of textual corpora and data fetched from social networks is fuelling a huge production of works based on the model proposed by psychologist Robert Plutchik, often referred simply as the ``Plutchik Wheel''.