polarization

The Twitter Monitoring App has been launched by members of the Data and Web Science Lab (DATALAB), the research group of the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, being specialized in ICT research and innovation on data science and multi-scope analytics. The current implementation is part of a data research and analysis project commonly initiated and collaboratively implemented with iMEdD Lab, the data journalism unit of the non-profit journalism organization iMEdD(incubator for Media Education and Development), located in Athens, Greece, with a mission to support transparency, meritocracy, and excellence in the journalism field.

Political polarization refers to the divergence of political opinions away from the center / neutral opinions towards ideological extremes. Political discussions can frequently become polarized, a phenomenon becoming more intense in social media discussions, such as Twitter.