Seminario - Studying fake news spreading, polarisation dynamics, and manipulation by bots: A tale of networks and language
Venerdì 3 Febbraio c.a. alle ore 15:30 il prof. Giancarlo Ruffo,
dell'Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale "Amedeo Avogadro"
terrà un seminario online dal titolo "Studying fake news spreading,
polarisation dynamics, and manipulation by bots: A tale of networks
and language".
Il seminario, della durata di 1h, si svolgerà tramite piattaforma
Teams ed è aperto a tutti gli interessati utilizzando il link sotto
riportato.
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SPEAKER: Prof. Giancarlo Ruffo, Associate Professor in Computer
Science at the University of Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro", Italy
TITLE: Studying fake news spreading, polarisation dynamics, and
manipulation by bots: A tale of networks and language
ABSTRACT:
With the explosive growth of online social media, the ancient problem
of information disorders interfering with news diffusion has surfaced
with a renewed intensity threatening our democracies, public health,
and news outlets? credibility. Therefore, thousands of scientific
papers have been published in a relatively short period, making
researchers of different disciplines struggle with an information
overload problem. The aim of this survey is threefold: (1) we present
the results of a network-based analysis of the existing
multidisciplinary literature to support the search for relevant trends
and central publications; (2) we describe the main results and
necessary background to attack the problem under a computational
perspective; (3) we review selected contributions using network
science as a unifying framework and computational linguistics as the
tool to make sense of the shared content. Despite scholars working on
computational linguistics and networks traditionally belong to
different scientific communities, we expect that those interested in
the area of fake news should be aware of crucial aspects of both
disciplines.
Reference:
G. Ruffo, A. Semeraro, A. Giachanou, P. Rosso, Studying fake news
spreading, polarisation dynamics, and manipulation by bots: A tale of
networks and language, Computer Science Review, 47, 2023, 100531
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosrev.2022.100531.