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COCOONS

COllective COordination through ONline Social media


LATEST NEWS


DRIVERS OF SOCIAL INFLUENCE IN THE TWITTER MIGRATION TO MASTODON

Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter on October 2022 triggered a mass exodus to
Mastodon. This is a unique example of collective behavioral change that is
documented through large-scale digital traces, and can teach us a lot about how
people coordinate. New Scientific Reports paper.


BEST PRESENTATION AWARD AT COMPLEX NETWORKS 2023

Arianna won the Best Presentation Award at Complex Networks 2023, with her paper
"Finding Hidden Swingers in the 2022 Italian Elections Twitter Discourse".
Congratulations Arianna!


THE STRENGTH OF KNOWLEDGE TIES

The "strength" of a social tie is much more than the frequency of interaction
between people. In a new paper in Scientific Reports we show how NLP can capture
a nuanced notion of tie strength as Granovetter initially conceptualized it.


THE LANGUAGE OF PERSUASION IN SOCIAL MEDIA

What elements of language are most effective at changing a person's mind? By
measuring the social intent of conversations, we show that knowledge, trust, and
similarity are key, as Philosopher Jürgen Habermas predicted. New on Nature
Scientific Reports.


COMMITTED MINORITIES IN FINANCIAL COLLECTIVE ACTION

In January 2021, retail investors on Reddit targeted short-selling activity by
hedge funds on GameStop shares. In a new study on Royal Society Open Science we
dissect the dynamics of commitment and coordination that allowed the Reddit
crowd to win that battle.


MISSION

In the coming decades, a defining task for humanity will be to solve global
challenges through mass coordination, such as averting the most catastrophic
consequences of rapid climate change or curbing the diffusion of pandemics.
These challenges can be understood as social dilemmas: the individual benefits
are at odds with collective interests, and only concerted action can attain
shared gains that outmatch individual costs. The focus of COCOONS is to unveil
the prime elements of social interactions that enable spontaneous citizen
coordination in the face of social dilemmas. Its ultimate goal is to provide a
blueprint to create online participatory platforms that will facilitate their
members to find agreement on how to solve problems that can be addressed only
with mass action. COCOONS is a project funded by the Carlsbergfondet under the
Semper Ardens program and supported by the IT University of Copenhagen.



Contact: Luca Aiello at luai@itu.dk
Address: Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300, Copenhagen, DK


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