After some quite time we can now update the list of the upcoming event and presentations. March will be a busy period with a major conference and two very interesting workshops where we are going to presents the new research lines we’re carrying on this year. Between the 12th and the 18th of March we [...]
Categories: Research,SIGSNA project
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- February 20, 2012 – 2:32 pm
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During the ASONAM 2011 conference in Keohsiung (Taiwan) our paper The ML-model for multi-layer social networks has been awarded with the Best Paper award (full paper). You can download our paper in the “paper section” on the SIGSNA website.
Categories: Research,SIGSNA project
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- August 9, 2011 – 11:37 am
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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 [...]
Categories: Research,University
Tagged: audience, fandom, glee, mediamutation, mms3, sna
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- May 26, 2011 – 5:56 pm
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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.
Categories: Research,Uncategorized
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- May 18, 2011 – 10:35 am
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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 [...]
Categories: Research,University
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- May 2, 2011 – 3:52 pm
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On Feb. 13th more than one million of Italian women and men gathered together in many Italian cities to protest over Berlusconi and to show their indignation provoked by Berlusconi’s recent sexual scandals. These are few data extracted from the tweets collected (via twapperkeeper) using the official #senonoraquando hashtag. PS: The small number of collected [...]
Categories: Research,University
Tagged: berlusconi, senonoraquando, twapperkeeper, twitter
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- February 16, 2011 – 9:54 am
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- By Luca