Users Polarization on Facebook and Youtube.
PLoS One
; 11(8): e0159641, 2016.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27551783
ABSTRACT
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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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Internet
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Disseminação de Informação
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Rede Social
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Mídias Sociais
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
PLoS One
Assunto da revista:
CIENCIA
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MEDICINA
Ano de publicação:
2016
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Itália