The pervasive spread of misinformation can be tracked to cognitive limitations, social influence and the global spread of ...

PART ONE: BACKGROUND UNDERSTANDING -- Becoming Familiar with Social Networks -- A Brief History of Social Network Analysis -- How to Study Social Networks, from Theory to Design -- PART TWO: LEVELS OF ...

Researchers set up a simple social network for AI bots to see how they'd behave. Without algorithms or recommendations, the bots reproduced the toxic patterns of social media. Six fixes to curb ...

This study examines how social network integration (i.e., integration of online platforms with other social media services, for example, with Facebook or Twitter) can affect the characteristics of ...

Women generally have less job authority than men. Previous research has shown that human capital, family features and contextual factors cannot fully explain this gender authority gap. Another popular ...

A team of researchers gave AI bots their own social platform — and it turned toxic. The chatbots split into cliques and boosted the most partisan voices. A handful of "influencers" also quickly ...