Monthly Archives: May 2011

The expanded Glee narrative and the emergence of disperse audience on YouTube 0

Yesterday I was at the MediaMutation3 conference with Agnese Vellar. We presented a talk about the study of Glee audience and fandom on YouTube . The research (see the slides blow) addressed a couple of interesting research questions for contemporary fan studies and audience studies. We were interested in understanding if (and with what kind [...]

#elezioni2011 tweets per hour 0

#elezioni2011 tagcloud 0

La tag cloud dei tweet con hashtag #elezioni2011 racconta molto della recente tornata elettorale. In particolare la rilevanza nazionale che ha assunto Milano e i suoi candidati (si noti come Batman controlli la Moratti) insieme ad una presenza importante del Movimento a 5 stelle.

Facebook and Administrative Elections in Italy 0

Is it possible to use Facebook to predict the electoral outcome? Can we say one like, one vote? As a first step of a broader research about these topics we’ve started by counting the likes on Facebook pages of the candidates for the forthcoming administrative elections in Italy. The data are linked to the Facebook [...]