Echo Chamber and Polarization in Social Media

Muhammad Al Atiqi is a computational social scientist who studied at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. His interest lies in the intersection of technology and society, particularly the influence of internet-related phenomena to human behavior. During his graduate study, he researched on the formation of echo chamber and political polarization in social media and identifying important factors to determine policies to minimize their negative influences. Prior to his research career, he taught university-level physics at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Aside from his main work, he is also involved in community organizing projects such as various Indonesian communities overseas and an environmental project to provide clean water in rural Bali.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Conceptual Backgrounds.- 3. Agent-based modeling for social simulation methods.- 4.  Simulating echo chamber and polarizations problems in social media.- 5. Agent-based interpretation of the Zaller Model.- 6. Application 1: Resolving the conflicting observation of echo chambers in social media.- 7. Application 2: Evaluating the influence of Facebook pages to individual user’s vaccination opinion.- 8. Conclusion.