Flavio Petruzzellis, Corrado Monti, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Francesco Bonchi.
International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM2023). AAAI, 2023.
Opinion change is rarely studied as a driver of behavioral transformation. Using longitudinal Reddit data from r/ChangeMyView, this research examines how self-reported opinion shifts predict subsequent changes in information consumption. The analysis shows that users alter their participation across communities according to the persuasive and propagandistic features of prior discussions, illustrating how moments of reflection can reorganize digital attention networks.