L’altro giorno sono stato a Bologna al bell’incontro con Henry Jenkins organizzato dagli amici di Mediamutation. È stato un bell’incontro dove Jenkins ha sistematizzato gli ultimi sviluppi del suo pensiero dopo l’approdo alla USC. Non voglio qui fare un resoconto dettagliato di quanto detto da Jenkins (ne trovate uno ottimo qui) quanto piuttosto fissare quelli che mi sembrano essere i punti chiave che delimitano il discorso che ha fatto, aiutandomi con i tweet che ho condiviso mentre Jenkins parlava.
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- June 29, 2012 – 3:57 pm
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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 [...]
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Tagged: audience, fandom, glee, mediamutation, mms3, sna
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- May 26, 2011 – 5:56 pm
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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 [...]
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- May 2, 2011 – 3:52 pm
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I’ve been through a crazy day at the Telecom Italia “Working Capital Initiative” event in Torino. Dressed in red like one the thousand we made a short presentation of the research projects funded last year (SIGSNA project was among those). A new year of funding activity has started and – based on our SIGSNA experience [...]
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- March 20, 2011 – 10:57 am
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- By Luca
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 [...]
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Tagged: berlusconi, senonoraquando, twapperkeeper, twitter
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- February 16, 2011 – 9:54 am
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- By Luca
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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- February 12, 2011 – 11:40 am
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- By Luca