Cesare Rollo, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Corrado Monti, André Panisson.
International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2022). Springer, 2022.
Won a monetary prize as SocInfo Best Paper Award! 🏆
Online political engagement depends on how users shift attention across communities. This paper proposes an attention-flow graph that captures user migration between subreddits, identifying gateways and bridges that connect mainstream, conspiratorial, and extremist spaces. The analysis shows how conspiracy forums can act as intermediaries in radicalization pathways, mapping the structural channels through which political audiences reorganize.