Ideological and Temporal Components of Network Polarization in Online Political Participatory Media

David García, Adiya Abisheva, Simon Schweighofer, Uwe Serdült, Frank Schweitzer Policy & Internet, 2015,  7(1) Political polarization is traditionally analyzed through the ideological stances of groups and parties, but it also has a behavioral component that manifests in the interactions between individuals. We present an empirical analysis of the digital traces of politicians in politnetz.ch, …

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Online privacy as a collective phenomenon

Emre Sarigol, David García, Frank Schweitzer Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference in Online Social Networks (COSN’14) 2014 The problem of online privacy is often reduced to individual decisions to hide or reveal personal information in online social networks (OSNs). However, with the increasing use of OSNs, it becomes more important to understand the role …

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