Ernesto Antonio Pio Colacrai
Modeling Multidimensional Political Ideologies on Reddit.
Rel. Luca Dall'Asta, Michele Starnini, Gianmarco De Francisci. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Physics Of Complex Systems (Fisica Dei Sistemi Complessi), 2024
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Abstract
The prevalent perspective in quantitative research on opinion dynamics flattens the landscape of the online political discourse into a traditional left-right dichotomy. While this approach helps simplify the analysis and modeling effort, it also neglects the intrinsic multidimensional richness of ideologies. In this study, we analyze social interactions on Reddit, a social news aggregator and forum platform, under the lens of a multi-dimensional ideological framework: the political compass. The Reddit chosen communities for the present study are /r/PoliticalCompass and /r/PoliticalCompassMemes, two communities dedicated respectively to discussing political views through two-axis ideologies and humorous commentary on such ideologies. Given a rich dataset of over 8 million comments posted, we aim to investigate the way interactions on social media align with a fine-grained characterization of users in terms of their ideological coordinates and demographic features.
By leveraging their self-declarations, we disentangle the ideological dimensions of users into economic (left-right) and social (libertarian-authoritarian) axes
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