Social determinants of content selection in the age of (mis)information

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8851, Issue , 2014, Pages 259-268

  Bessi, Alessandro ^a,b   Caldarelli, Guido ^b,c   Vicario, Michela Del ^b   Scala, Antonio ^c   Quattrociocchi, Walter ^b,d  

^a SCUOLA UNIVERSITARIA SUPERIORE IUSS PAVIA   (Italy)

^b IMT SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES LUCCA   (Italy)

^c ISC CNR   (Italy)

^d NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective narratives; Crowd dynamics; Information spreading; Misinformation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCES; COLLECTIVE NARRATIVES; CROWD DYNAMICS; FACEBOOK; INFORMATION SPREADING; MISINFORMATION;

GLOBAL WARMING;

EID: 84914141540     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-13734-6_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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