TY - GEN
T1 - The Ebb and flow of controversial debates on social media
AU - Garimella, Kiran
AU - Morales, Gianmarco De Francisci
AU - Gionis, Aristides
AU - Mathioudakis, Michael
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Academy of Finland project “Nestor” (286211) and the EC H2020 RIA project “SoBig-Data” (654024).
Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright 2017, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - We explore how the polarization around controversial topics evolves on Twitter - over a long period of time (2011 to 2016), and also as a response to major external events that lead to increased related activity. We find that increased activity is typically associated with increased polarization; however, we find no consistent long-term trend in polarization over time among the topics we study.
AB - We explore how the polarization around controversial topics evolves on Twitter - over a long period of time (2011 to 2016), and also as a response to major external events that lead to increased related activity. We find that increased activity is typically associated with increased polarization; however, we find no consistent long-term trend in polarization over time among the topics we study.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85026784906
T3 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2017
SP - 524
EP - 527
BT - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2017
PB - AAAI press
T2 - 11th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2017
Y2 - 15 May 2017 through 18 May 2017
ER -