Detection of echo chambers in Reddit
In today’s technology climate, people can easily connect with anyone in the world, and to quickly access any kind of information online. While this is beneficial, it does come at a great cost as well. When given the freedom to express their thoughts, people usually concur with views that are consist...
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| author | Mun, Kei Wuai |
| author2 | Lee Bu Sung, Francis |
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| description | In today’s technology climate, people can easily connect with anyone in the world, and to quickly access any kind of information online. While this is beneficial, it does come at a great cost as well. When given the freedom to express their thoughts, people usually concur with views that are consistent with their own, ignoring and dismissing other views that are different. This results in the phenomenon called “echo chamber”, in which people are trapped in an enclosed chamber where their own ideology is reinforced, or echoed again and again.
Echo chambers can be detrimental as it diminishes mutual understanding between groups of people with different ideologies, causing social tension. Thus, it is more important now than ever, to know how to detect echo chambers. However, there are limited studies and research done in this domain.
This report presents a novel and structured approach in detecting echo chambers in a widely popular social media platform named Reddit. It is a hybrid approach consisting of topological and semantic aspects, which makes use of graph community and stance detection respectively, to detect echo chambers. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1659502023-04-21T15:37:35Z Detection of echo chambers in Reddit Mun, Kei Wuai Lee Bu Sung, Francis School of Computer Science and Engineering Defence Science and Technology Agency EBSLEE@ntu.edu.sg Engineering In today’s technology climate, people can easily connect with anyone in the world, and to quickly access any kind of information online. While this is beneficial, it does come at a great cost as well. When given the freedom to express their thoughts, people usually concur with views that are consistent with their own, ignoring and dismissing other views that are different. This results in the phenomenon called “echo chamber”, in which people are trapped in an enclosed chamber where their own ideology is reinforced, or echoed again and again. Echo chambers can be detrimental as it diminishes mutual understanding between groups of people with different ideologies, causing social tension. Thus, it is more important now than ever, to know how to detect echo chambers. However, there are limited studies and research done in this domain. This report presents a novel and structured approach in detecting echo chambers in a widely popular social media platform named Reddit. It is a hybrid approach consisting of topological and semantic aspects, which makes use of graph community and stance detection respectively, to detect echo chambers. Bachelor of Science in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence 2023-04-17T07:03:20Z 2023-04-17T07:03:20Z 2023 Final Year Project (FYP) Mun, K. W. (2023). Detection of echo chambers in Reddit. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165950 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165950 en SCSE22-0635 application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
| spellingShingle | Engineering Mun, Kei Wuai Detection of echo chambers in Reddit |
| title | Detection of echo chambers in Reddit |
| title_full | Detection of echo chambers in Reddit |
| title_fullStr | Detection of echo chambers in Reddit |
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| title_short | Detection of echo chambers in Reddit |
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| topic | Engineering |
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