Fine-Grained Clustering of Social Media: How Moral Triggers Drive Preferences and Consensus

Emanuele Brugnoli, Emanuele Brugnoli, Pietro Gravino, Donald Ruggiero Lo Sardo, Donald Ruggiero Lo Sardo, Vittorio Loreto, Vittorio Loreto, Vittorio Loreto, Giulio Prevedello

2024

Abstract

The increased access to online information provided by social media platforms allows individuals to form and convey their beliefs regarding events in their daily lives. The wide range of interactions carried out in these virtual environments has the power to impact the decisions and behaviours of others, also creating conflict, polarisation, misinformation, and toxic content. When individuals engage in public debates about topics tied to significant societal concerns, these discussions often regard or imply moral values. By analyzing five years of Italian Twitter/X debate on immigration, we show how a language model aware of moral values detects community structures more accurately, better depicting the actual political scenario in Italy.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Brugnoli E., Gravino P., Lo Sardo D., Loreto V. and Prevedello G. (2024). Fine-Grained Clustering of Social Media: How Moral Triggers Drive Preferences and Consensus. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: AWAI; ISBN 978-989-758-680-4, SciTePress, pages 1405-1412. DOI: 10.5220/0012595000003636

in Bibtex Style

@conference{awai24,
author={Emanuele Brugnoli and Pietro Gravino and Donald Ruggiero Lo Sardo and Vittorio Loreto and Giulio Prevedello},
title={Fine-Grained Clustering of Social Media: How Moral Triggers Drive Preferences and Consensus},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: AWAI},
year={2024},
pages={1405-1412},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012595000003636},
isbn={978-989-758-680-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: AWAI
TI - Fine-Grained Clustering of Social Media: How Moral Triggers Drive Preferences and Consensus
SN - 978-989-758-680-4
AU - Brugnoli E.
AU - Gravino P.
AU - Lo Sardo D.
AU - Loreto V.
AU - Prevedello G.
PY - 2024
SP - 1405
EP - 1412
DO - 10.5220/0012595000003636
PB - SciTePress