Homophily, Group Size, and the Diffusion of Political Information in Social Networks: Evidence from Twitter

By Y. Halberstam, Brian G. Knight. 2016

372 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e6da1bee6c70c1ea9bcb119578db4ddfd75da0c6

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1. Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal
2. Palashi Vaghela
3. Ro’ee Levy
4. Joyojeet Pal

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1. Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal
2. Palashi Vaghela
3. Ro’ee Levy
4. Joyojeet Pal

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

1. Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal
2. Palashi Vaghela
3. Ro’ee Levy
4. Joyojeet Pal

Citations in the corpus

• Birds of a Caste - How Caste Hierarchies Manifest in Retweet Behavior of Indian Politicians (2020, background): “Further, multiple studies have shown that sharing similar attributes or opinions influences the retweeting behaviour [20, 33, 54, 59, 106].”
• Social Media, News Consumption, and Polarization: Evidence from a Field Experiment (2020, background): “Complementing previous studies focusing on Twitter (Halberstam and Knight 2016), participants were much more likely to share pro-attitudinal posts.”