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Resilience of socio-semantic bubbles

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The polarization observed in digital spaces makes them a prototypical playground for the study of sets of actors cohesively connected to alters holding similar opinions. Such socio-semantic bubbles raise the issue of resilience at two levels, whereby macro-level resilience may conflict with meso-level resilience: put differently, the deliberative capacity of a social system may be disrupted by the stability of groups whose members hardly encounter diverging narratives. This chapter reviews our current knowledge on the empirical socio-semantic cohesiveness of bubbles and on the normative models explaining their plausible emergence. It also aims at challenging the common correspondence between low-level homophily and high-level fragmentation, that neither holds nor suffices to explain the wide spectrum of socio-semantic configurations observed across a myriad of online systems. It proposes further research directions in this regard, while reviewing the ongoing efforts for understanding the potential role of algorithms in the emergence of online socio-semantic bubbles.
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halshs-03904437, version 1 (16-12-2022)

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Camille Roth. Resilience of socio-semantic bubbles. Emmanuel Lazega; Tom Snijders; Rafael Wittek. Social networks to support food and nutrition security: a case study in the United States, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.145-164, 2022, 9781803925776. ⟨10.4337/9781803925783.00016⟩. ⟨halshs-03904437⟩

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