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2023 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Will You Take the Knee? Italian Twitter Echo Chambers’ Genesis During EURO 2020

verfasst von : Chiara Buongiovanni, Roswita Candusso, Giacomo Cerretini, Diego Febbe, Virginia Morini, Giulio Rossetti

Erschienen in: Complex Networks and Their Applications XI

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Echo chambers can be described as situations in which individuals encounter and interact only with viewpoints that confirm their own, thus moving, as a group, to more polarized and extreme positions. Recent literature mainly focuses on characterizing such entities via static observations, thus disregarding their temporal dimension. In this work, distancing from such a trend, we study, at multiple topological levels, echo chambers genesis related to the social discussions that took place in Italy during the EURO 2020 Championship. Our analysis focuses on a well-defined topic (i.e., BLM/racism) discussed on Twitter during a perfect temporally bound (sporting) event. Such characteristics allow us to track the rise and evolution of echo chambers in time, thus relating their existence to specific episodes.

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Fußnoten
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BLM is a social movement that protests against violence committed by the US police, and more generally against racism towards black people. It was born in 2013, and reached its peak in 2020 when George Floyd was killed by the policeman Derek Chauvin, triggering violent protests all around the US and being known worldwide.
 
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The Week, https://​bit.​ly/​3GE3p1m, last visited: 1/06/2022
 
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In English “I don’t take the knee”.
 
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La Repubblica, https://​bit.​ly/​38VmRKN, last visited: 1/06/2022.
 
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GitHub: t.ly/-c1p.
 
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In English: “I take the knee".
 
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In English: “let’s take the vaccine".
 
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In English: “racism".
 
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Otto e mezzo on LA7, https://​bit.​ly/​3tgM0q6, last visited: 5/06/2022.
 
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Stasera Italia on Rete4, https://​bit.​ly/​3x7H1Jw at min: 15, last visited: 5/06/2022.
 
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Il Giornale, https://​bit.​ly/​3zaf2eH, last visited: 2/06/2022.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Will You Take the Knee? Italian Twitter Echo Chambers’ Genesis During EURO 2020
verfasst von
Chiara Buongiovanni
Roswita Candusso
Giacomo Cerretini
Diego Febbe
Virginia Morini
Giulio Rossetti
Copyright-Jahr
2023
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21127-0_3

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