Persistent interaction patterns across social media platforms and over time.

ABSTRACT: Growing concern surrounds the impact of social media platforms on public discourse^1-4 and their influence on social dynamics^5-9, especially in the context of toxicity^10-12. Here, to better understand these phenomena, we use a comparative approach to isolate human behavioural patterns across multiple social media platforms. In particular, we analyse conversations in different online communities, focusing on identifying consistent patterns of toxic content. Drawing from an extensive dataset that spans eight platforms over 34 years-from Usenet to contemporary social media-our findings show consistent conversation patterns and user behaviour, irrespective of the platform, topic or time. Notably, although long conversations consistently exhibit higher toxicity,

SUBMITTER: Avalle M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11023927 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature