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SUBMITTER: Stella M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6521989 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stella Massimo M Cristoforetti Marco M De Domenico Manlio M
PloS one 20190516 5
The advent of the digital era provided a fertile ground for the development of virtual societies, complex systems influencing real-world dynamics. Understanding online human behavior and its relevance beyond the digital boundaries is still an open challenge. Here we show that online social interactions during a massive voting event can be used to build an accurate map of real-world political parties and electoral ranks for Italian elections in 2018. We provide evidence that information flow and ...[more]