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Quantifying Controversy in Social Media

Year: 2016

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Which topics spark the most heated debates in social media? Identifying these topics is a first step towards creating systems which pierce echo chambers. In this paper, we perform a systematic methodological study of controversy detection using social media network structure and content.

Source: ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)

DOI: 10.1145/2835776.2835792

Authors: Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis, Michael Mathioudakis

Institutions: Aalto University, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology

Language: English

Topic: Misinformation and Its Impacts

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Horizon 2020 Framework Programme

OpenAlex ID: W1929853451

FWCI: 91.59

Cites: 28

Cited by: 148

Related to: 10