Echo Chambers: Emotional Contagion and Group Polarization on Facebook

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Del Vicario, Michela ^a   Vivaldo, Gianna ^a   Bessi, Alessandro ^a,b   Zollo, Fabiana ^a   Scala, Antonio ^a,c   Caldarelli, Guido ^a   Quattrociocchi, Walter ^a  

^a IMT SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES LUCCA   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA UNIVERSITARIA SUPERIORE IUSS PAVIA   (Italy)

^c ISC CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMOTION; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; POLARIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ITALY; LANGUAGE; LEAST SQUARE ANALYSIS; RISK; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK;

COMMUNICATION; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; ITALY; LANGUAGE; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; RISK; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING;

EID: 85000788389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep37825     Document Type: Article

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