Meeting the other side. Framing and (de-)polarizing effects of thematic and exemplar encounter with ideological outgroups

2023 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting & Exhibition - Los Angeles (CA) Rights and Responsibilities in an Age of Mis- and Disinformation August 31 - September 3, 2023…

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Affective Polarization, the Hybrid Media System and Economic Uncertainty during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Italy

73rd Annual ICA Conference - Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Reclaming Autenticity in Communication May 25-29, 2023 Presentation: Affective Polarization, the Hybrid Media System and Economic Uncertainty during…

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Hidden in plain sight. A co-constitutive approach to unveil misogyny in digital public discourse

IC2S2 9th International Conference on Computational Social Science - Copenhagen, Denmark July 17 - 20, 2023 Poster Presentation: Hidden in plain sight. A co-constitutive approach to unveil misogyny in digital…

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Un circolo non virtuoso? Gli effetti delle esperienze politiche online e dell’estremismo ideologico sulla circolazione, la verifica e la correzione delle notizie false.

  V Conference of the Società Scientifica Italiana di Sociologia, Cultura, Comunicazione – SISCC University of Bari “Aldo Moro” Mondi possibili. Tra crisi, conflitti e pratiche creative. June 22 and…

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Esperienze di comunicazione politica e partecipazione “democraticamente disfunzionale” nella società delle piattaforme

Conference of the Italian Association of Political Communication (AssoComPol) Beyond digital political communication: platforms, algorithms and automation University of Torino 8-10 June 2023 Presentation: Esperienze di comunicazione politica e partecipazione…

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“We hate her…and you too”: Polarized intersectionality in Italy throughout changing political scenarios

This article proposes a joint application of online network analysis and NLP techniques to explore dynamics of “polarized intersectionality”—that is, how (mis)representations of women that develop online and at the…

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Seven years of studying the associations between political polarization and problematic information: a literature review

This literature review examines the intersection between political polarization and problematic information, two phenomena prominent in recent events like the 2016 Trump election and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. We analyzed…

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Participation in Problematic News Cycles on Social Media and Instant Messaging Services during the Covid-19 Pandemic. The Impact of News Use, Political Discussion, and Ideological Extremism

After a period of initial enthusiasm about the greater communication power offered to citizens by the Internet, scholars now share a widespread concern about online participation in problematic news cycles.…

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