Network analysis of alt-right and militia groups in online communities

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Analysis related to the behavior of extreme far right online communities

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Network analysis of alt-right and militia groups in online communities #1

Open gati opened 7 years ago

gati commented 7 years ago

Which nodes of a given community are most influential?

How does information or sentiment spread within communities?

When did a given community emerge? Did it emerge from another community? Is it expanding or contracting?

gvdr commented 7 years ago

I think this is a very important set of questions.

To be ambitious, we may try to go predictive, such as:

providing a warning system for far right bots and militants;
detecting nascent memes within far right communities before they explode;
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gati commented 7 years ago

Absolutely agree - re bots, this might be an interesting jumping off point! http://truthy.indiana.edu/botornot/

gvdr commented 7 years ago

Didn't know that paper. It's on my reading list now.

mollyegibson commented 7 years ago

Hey guys! I'm new to d4d and came across this issue while exploring the github--and I'm really interested in these ideas. I'm not quite sure how to get started and would love some guidance! I'll give you a bit about my background: I'm currently a master's student in engineering data analytics & statistics. I'm relatively new to CS, but I feel pretty confident with Python, R and SQL and I've done a few machine learning/data science projects (both for class and from Kaggle). I have a lot to learn, but I'm totally geeked on data and I'm excited about the opportunity to contribute to a meaningful+relevant project! Let me know how I can help!

sjacks26 commented 7 years ago

Hey @mollyegibson! Check out #discursive-commdetect in Slack. I think gvdr and henripal have been thinking about how to get started, I'm sure they can use your help!