Polarization dynamics: a study of individuals shifting between political communities on social media

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作者
Albanese, Federico [1 ]
Feuerstein, Esteban [2 ]
Balenzuela, Pablo [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Buenos Aires, Inst Invest Ciencias Comp, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
[2] Univ Buenos Aires, Fac Ciencias Exactas & Nat, Dept Comp, Buenos Aires, Argentina
[3] Univ Buenos Aires, Fac Ciencias Exactas & Nat, Dept Fis, Buenos Aires, Argentina
来源
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-COMPLEXITY | 2024年 / 5卷 / 03期
关键词
polarization; community detection; sentiment analysis; social media;
D O I
10.1088/2632-072X/ad679d
中图分类号
O1 [数学];
学科分类号
0701 ; 070101 ;
摘要
Individuals engaging on social media often tend to establish online communities where interactions predominantly occur among like-minded peers. While considerable efforts have been devoted to studying and delineating these communities, there has been limited attention directed towards individuals who diverge from these patterns. In this study, we examine the community structure of re-post networks within the context of a polarized political environment at two different times. We specifically identify individuals who consistently switch between opposing communities and analyze the key features that distinguish them. Our investigation focuses on two crucial aspects of these users: the topological properties of their interactions and the political bias in the content of their posts. Our analysis is based on a dataset comprising 2 million tweets related to US President Donald Trump, coupled with data from over 100 000 individual user accounts spanning the 2020 US presidential election year. Our findings indicate that individuals who switch communities exhibit disparities compared to those who remain within the same communities, both in terms of the topological aspects of their interaction patterns (pagerank, degree, betweenness centrality.) and in the sentiment bias of their content towards Donald Trump.
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