Old Adults Are More Engaged on Facebook, Especially in Politics: Evidence From Users in 46 Countries

Ortellado, Pablo; Ribeiro, Márcio Moretto; Kessler, Gabriel; Vommaro, Gabriel; Rodríguez‐Raga, Juan Carlos; Luna, Juan Pablo; Heinen, Eduarth; Cely, Laura Fernanda; Toro, Sergio

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“…It is important to highlight here that over the period of our study, the median age of the strike hosts went up quite a bit: from 18 years old in spring 2019 to 25 years old in fall 2019, to 32 years old in spring 2020 (for more discussion of the ages of strike hosts, see Fisher & Nasrin, 2021b). Given the noted differences in social media platform use based on age (Anderson & Jiang, 2018; Ortellado et al, 2021), the differences in the dominant social media platform are not particularly surprising. Across all three events, Twitter was the third most common social media platform.…”

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Understanding Collective Identity in Virtual Spaces: A Study of the Youth Climate Movement

Nasrin

Fisher

2021

American Behavioral Scientist

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How does collective identity form in virtual spaces and what role do hashtags play? This paper takes advantage of a unique dataset that includes surveys from activists who organized the nationally coordinated climate strikes in the US that began in spring 2019 to answer these questions. Building on the research about collective identity formation online and the role that hashtags play, we employ social network analysis to assess how collective identity forms online over three waves of protests. In particular, we analyze how activists involved in the youth climate movement used hashtags to project their collective identities and create collective narratives. Our findings show how hashtags use varied over the period of our study, in some cases indicating the formation of a thin collective identity. They also show that there are patterns in the ways hashtags are employed by activists in the movement that suggest the formation of subaltern narratives among those affiliated with youth-led groups. Our paper concludes by considering how this finding helps us understand collective identity in virtual spaces and the role that hashtags play more specifically within social movements.

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Understanding Collective Identity in Virtual Spaces: A Study of the Youth Climate Movement

Nasrin

Fisher

2021

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…Recent work shows that in Chile, as in the rest of Latin America, older users are more likely to engage with news and political content on Facebook than younger users (Ortellado et al, 2021). Those who share political news are 10 years older (with an age average of 50 years) than those who view political news.…”

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Amplifying Counter-Public Spheres on Social Media: News Sharing of Alternative Versus Traditional Media After the 2019 Chilean Uprising

Luna

Toro

Valenzuela

2022

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While much research exists on the role of digital media use in protest movements, few studies compare the long-term impact of protests on online use of alternative and mainstream digital media. This holds particularly true in countries of the global south. Our study addresses this knowledge gap by examining the massive demonstrations that occurred in Chile on 18 October 2019. Based on data from 1,221,487 Facebook posts from 31 media outlets collected 10 months before and after the protests, we detected significant discontinuities in users’ interactions with news content. Whereas both media types display different baseline levels, for alternative media, the time series reflects a “step” type of shock—a long-lasting increase in news sharing—whereas for mainstream media, it is a “pulse” type of shock—a burst of interactions that quickly returned to pre-existing levels. These results suggest that social media users relied on alternative news media to amplify counter-public spheres in Chile.

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FbMultiLingMisinfo: Challenging Large-Scale Multilingual Benchmark for Misinformation Detection

Barnabò

Siciliano

Castillo

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2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)

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Old Adults Are More Engaged on Facebook, Especially in Politics: Evidence From Users in 46 Countries

Cited by 3 publications

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Understanding Collective Identity in Virtual Spaces: A Study of the Youth Climate Movement

Understanding Collective Identity in Virtual Spaces: A Study of the Youth Climate Movement

Amplifying Counter-Public Spheres on Social Media: News Sharing of Alternative Versus Traditional Media After the 2019 Chilean Uprising

FbMultiLingMisinfo: Challenging Large-Scale Multilingual Benchmark for Misinformation Detection

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