The Ebb and flow of controversial debates on social media

Kiran Garimella; Gianmarco De Francisci Morales; Aristides Gionis; Michael Mathioudakis

The Ebb and flow of controversial debates on social media

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

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2017
Publisher	AAAI Press
Pages	524-527
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781577357889
Publication status	Published - 2017
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media - Montreal, Canada Duration: 15 May 2017 → 18 May 2017 Conference number: 11 https://www.icwsm.org/2017/

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Conference	International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Abbreviated title	ICWSM
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	15/05/2017 → 18/05/2017
Internet address	https://www.icwsm.org/2017/

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Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2017. AAAI Press, 2017. p. 524-527.

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