Temporal Dynamics of Fragmentation in Reddit Meme Stock Communities: A Network Analysis of the GameStop Event
A content-based network analysis of r/WallStreetBets post titles showing that the GameStop short squeeze produced a dominant aggregated semantic cluster while daily similarity networks reveal sharp fragmentation and entropy spikes aligned with events like Robinhood's trading halt.
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Temporal Dynamics of Fragmentation in Reddit Meme Stock Communities: A Network Analysis of the GameStop Event
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Mei Si
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3720533.3750068
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A content-based network analysis of r/WallStreetBets post titles showing that the GameStop short squeeze produced a dominant aggregated semantic cluster while daily similarity networks reveal sharp fragmentation and entropy spikes aligned with events like Robinhood's trading halt.
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Reddit Event Analysis, Semantic Similarity Networks, Social Media Network Fragmentation
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2025-10-03
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HT '25 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Chicago, IL, USA
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