Researcher presents latest work on tracking ideas in social media
Sunday, February 19, 2012 - 09:02
in Psychology & Sociology
Indiana University's Filippo Menczer has shown how to "out" political astroturfers through his complex networks laboratory's study of information diffusion on Twitter. The research team went on to learn that while retweet networks are politically segregated between left- and right-leaners, Twitter "mentions" actually create a communication bridge between the two partisan groups.