🚀 The FRIENDS satellite is back with a stellar lineup of speakers! We’re excited to announce our first confirmed speaker: István Kovács (Northwestern University). Interested in presenting your work? Submit your abstract here: signet-friends.github.io/submit/

FRIENDS satellite@signet-friends.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🕸️ Working on signed networks? Planning to attend @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston? 🕸️ 🔥Abstract submissions for the FRIENDS satellite are open🔥 Deadline March 20th (acceptance on a rolling basis). Details: signet-friends.github.io

In 4 years of engagement on Facebook we identified 2 major shifts in trends. In both, ideological gap widens and news quality declines. BUT while engagement rises 📈 in the 1st shift, it falls 📉 in the 2nd.

Happy to present at the Computational Social Science satellite, with the recent news this same paper was accepted just a few days ago. For now, you can see the updated preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2409.13461

Analyzing News Engagement on Facebook: Tracking Ideological Segregation and News Quality in the Facebook URL Dataset

The Facebook Privacy-Protected Full URLs Dataset was released to enable independent, academic research on the impact of Facebook's platform on society while ensuring user privacy. The dataset has been...

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Luca Gallo@lgajo.bsky.social · last yr.

Our next speaker is @emmafraxanet.bsky.social, who will talk to us about ideological segregation and news quality in social media #CCS2025

It was a great week at IC2S2 in Norrköping! This community is really something. Today I got to share our findings on tracking engagement with news content on Facebook (check the preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2409.13461 )...and I was lucky enough to do so on the amazing auditorium stage✨️

I'm very much looking forward to this next monday! ✨️ Note that 11am ET means 4pm CET due to light saving changes. Join for some discussion on signed networks, online platforms and polarization! I might also announce a cool dataset coming soon 🤭

Women in Network Science (WiNS) Society@wins-society.bsky.social · 2y ago

📅Save the date! Join us next Monday (Mar 10th, 11 AM ET) for our next seminar by @emmafraxanet.bsky.social from Pompeu Fabra University, who will discuss polarization in online communities. Don't miss out! ✨

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