Paper Info
Title
Uncovering the wider structure of extreme right communities spanning popular online networks
Abstract
Recent years have seen increased interest in the online presence of extreme right groups. Although originally composed of dedicated websites, the online extreme right milieu now spans multiple networks, including popular social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Ideally therefore, any contemporary analysis of online extreme right activity requires the consideration of multiple data sources, rather than being restricted to a single platform. We investigate the potential for Twitter to act as one possible gateway to communities within the wider online network of the extreme right, given its facility for the dissemination of content. A strategy for representing heterogeneous network data with a single homogeneous network for the purpose of community detection is presented, where these inherently dynamic communities are tracked over time. We use this strategy to discover and analyze persistent English and German language extreme right communities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2464464.2464495
Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference
Keywords
DocType
Volume
popular online network,wider online network,online presence,extreme right group,online extreme right milieu,online extreme right activity,heterogeneous network data,extreme right community,wider structure,single homogeneous network,extreme right,spans multiple network,social network analysis,international relations,world wide web
Conference
abs/1302.1726
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.53
15
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Derek O'Callaghan1996.61
Derek Greene229724.34
Maura Conway3595.68
Joe Carthy433529.33
Pádraig Cunningham53086218.37