Nel’ultimo anno il dibattito nazionale su Twitter è stato segnato soprattutto dalla sua diffusione tra i personaggi famosi ed una conseguente maggior diffusione anche all’interno di “nuove” fasce della popolazione. In molti hanno fatto notare come l’arrivo dei vip su Twitter (re)introducesse di fatto una logica di tipo broadcasting fatta di pochi leader e da [...]
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Tagged: broadcasting, centrality, gephi, mapping, signsa, twitter
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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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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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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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
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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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 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