idramalab / manosphere_analysis

Code for the paper “The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web” (ICWSM 2021)

The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web

This repo contains the data and the analysis done in the paper "The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web".

@article{ribeiro2021evolution,
    title={The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web},
    author={Ribeiro, Manoel Horta and Blackburn, Jeremy and Bradlyn, 
            Barry and De Cristofaro, Emiliano and Stringhini, Gianluca and 
            Long, Summer and Greenberg, Stephanie and Zannettou, Savvas},
    booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 15th International AAAI Conference 
                  on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'21)}},
    year={2021}
}

Analyses were done in Jupyter notebooks that are in the /notebooks/ folder:

• activity_and_popularity.ipynbreproduces Figure 1 of the paper;
• users_intersection.ipynb reproduces Figure 2 of the paper;
• users_migration.ipynb reproduces Figure 3 of the paper;
• toxicity_and_misoginy.ipynb reproduces Figure 4 of the paper;

Data

Data description stuff can be found in /data/.