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The intertwined cyberbalkanizations of Facebook pages and their audience: an analysis of Facebook pages and their audience during the 2014 Hong Kong Occupy Movement


Chan, Chung-hong ; Zhu, Junior Yuner ; Chow, Cassius Siu-lun ; Fu, King-wa



DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-019-00043-x
URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42001-0...
Additional URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332099184...
Document Type: Article
Year of publication: 2019
The title of a journal, publication series: Journal of Computational Social Science : JCSS
Volume: 2
Issue number: 2
Page range: 183-205
Place of publication: Singapore
Publishing house: Springer Singapore
ISSN: 2432-2717 , 2432-2725
Publication language: English
Institution: Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Mannheim Centre for European Social Research - Research Department B
Subject: 320 Political science
Abstract: This study tests a hypothesis that information sources (e.g., Facebook pages) that share information more frequently with each other have high level of audience overlapping. This association is also hypothesized to be politically motivated. To test the empirical relationship, a Facebook pages sharing network was created using the information shared between 1453 Facebook pages during a social movement in Hong Kong. The sharing frequency between two pages was denoted as the page-level edge weight. The audience of Facebook pages—commenters and likers of the page’s posts—were collected. The Jaccard similarity coefficient between two pages was measured as the audience-level edge weight. Using network regression analysis, the page-level and audience-level edge weights were significantly associated. To show this relationship is politically motivated, 1076 audience members were randomly selected and with their political preferences labeled by inferring from their Facebook profile pictures. Using machine learning models, the repertoires of Facebook pages that they have interacted with can predict their political preferences. Our study demonstrated that selective sharing between information source is associated with the division of their audiences into enclaved subgroups with similar political ideologies.

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ORCID: Chan, Chung-hong ORCID: 0000-0002-6232-7530 ; Zhu, Junior Yuner ; Chow, Cassius Siu-lun ; Fu, King-wa ORCID: 0000-0001-8157-5276

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