Recently LaRiCA Lab released some very interesting data about News Consumption in Italy. The research mirrors a Pew Internet research made in the US in 2010 and offers several interesting opportunities for comparative analysis. In addition to that all the data have been made public using a creative commons license so you can just download the whole SPSS dataset and make you own analysis.
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SIGSNA Visualisation of the #mineros Reply Network (Tweets with the #mineros hashtag collected during the final phase of the rescue operation).
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What happens when your friends are the resources you’re supposed to use in the game? [Presentation done at the IR11 Conference - Oct, 21 2010- Gothenburg ] Gaming in SNS context View more presentations from Luca Rossi.
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Recently we’ve posted on Friendfeed a visualisation of Italian Friendfeed users extracted from the data we’ve collected in 2009. Since the map started an interesting debate (you can read it here – in Italian -) we thought to write a short post explaining how the map has been done and what are its limits and possibilities.
The map is based on a network made of 8024 nodes with 244542 edges (even if the map shows only the nodes with more than 147 followers but statistical values have been counted on the whole network).
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Few days ago Axle Burns and the people from “Mapping online publics” posted a very interesting article about mapping the Australian election following #ausvote tweets. The idea behind that was rather good and simple: by mapping all the messages containing the conventional reply symbol (@username) one could map the conversational network surrounding a specific topic (defined by the #hashtag). Of course this methods has some limitations (clearly explained by Axle), nevertheless it can be use to produce a rough map of the conversational network.
Since some time ago we’ve downloaded (using Twapperkeeper – the same service used by Axel) all the tweets with the hashtag #ukge2010 (the “official” hashtag about Uk general elections) we have decided to do the same analysis on Uk tweets.
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We’ve been recently awarded of High Performance Computer resources by the CINECA – the Italian Consortium for high performance computing. We submitted an application a C class project (test and development) and now we we can use up to 20.000 CPU hours of the CINECA SP6 System. This open a brand new scenario in our [...]
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Recently I attended in Gothenburg the International Sociological Association Conference (ISA 2010). During the ISA conference I presented a SIGSNA paper at the RC51- Sociocybernetics session. Sociocybernetic is an interesting sociological approach rooted in the System theory and in Complexity theory; nowadays it shows a good theoretical background for a Sociological Approach to the internet [...]
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Recently Facebook Inside published some demographic data about the engaging Facebook apps. Obviously many of them are games and some more detailed analysis coud provide some interesting insights on users’ behaviours. Reported data seems to be quite predictable:Users for these in apps generally trend young and female with some specific exception like Texas HoldEm which [...]
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Tagged: demographic data, Facebook, farmville, games, games studies
SIGSNA, research project I’m working on, with my friend Matteo, is partially founded by Telecom Italia through a project called Working Capital aimed at findings and supporting new and interesting idea not only directly linked to business opportunity. Yesterday Working Capital blog posted the first part of a long interview they made with Matteo. The [...]
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Tagged: sigsna, telecom italia, working capital
Tomorrow I’m heading to Bethesda (MD) to attend the International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, & Prediction. This will be the first official SIGSNA presentation out of Italy and we’re pretty excited about it. The conference seems to be very interesting as so far the organization has been rather efficient. I’ll try to keep [...]
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Tagged: conference, NIH, SBP2010, sigsna