Jointly modelling the evolution of community structure and language in online extremist groups

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19243v1
• Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2024 05:19:51 GMT
• Title: Jointly modelling the evolution of community structure and language in online extremist groups
• Authors: Christine de Kock,
• Abstract summary: Group interactions take place within a particular socio-temporal context, which should be taken into account when modelling communities. We propose a method for jointly modelling community structure and language over time, and apply it in the context of extremist anti-women online groups.
• Score: 5.384630221560811
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Group interactions take place within a particular socio-temporal context, which should be taken into account when modelling communities. We propose a method for jointly modelling community structure and language over time, and apply it in the context of extremist anti-women online groups (collectively known as the manosphere). Our model derives temporally grounded embeddings for words and users, which evolve over the training window. We show that this approach outperforms prior models which lacked one of these components (i.e. not incorporating social structure, or using static word embeddings). Using these embeddings, we investigate the evolution of users and words within these communities in three ways: (i) we model a user as a sequence of embeddings and forecast their affinity groups beyond the training window, (ii) we illustrate how word evolution is useful in the context of temporal events, and (iii) we characterise the propensity for violent language within subgroups of the manosphere.

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