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 tweets rises more than one doubt on the reliability of Twapperkeeper as a research tool (at least 4 of my tweets – properly tagged – are missing).
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Tagged: berlusconi, senonoraquando, twapperkeeper, twitter
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- February 16, 2011 – 9:54 am
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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.
Yesterday I downloaded the dataset and since I’ve always wanted to try to make some kind of cool data visualisation I started with something very simple but always interesting: SNS and gender.
Does the adoption of a specific social network site change according to the gender distinction?
This is the answer provided by data on the Italian population:
You can download an hi-res PDF version of this picture from here.
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- February 12, 2011 – 11:40 am
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- By Luca
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While recently our Minister of Education described the Communication Studies as “nice but useless” Henry Jenkins made a point writing about the Future of Media Education.
I think we all should start from here:
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- January 25, 2011 – 11:16 am
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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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- January 19, 2011 – 1:21 pm
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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 ]
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- October 25, 2010 – 5:10 pm
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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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- September 22, 2010 – 9:02 am
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- By Luca
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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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Tagged: signsa, sna, ukge2020
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- September 19, 2010 – 9:07 pm
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- By Luca
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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 research with many interesting perspectives. The size of the network we are working with can be hardly managed with normal personal computers and even when it is possible it takes hours or even days of computation. Now we could move toward a new set of possibilities that so far have been out of our computational power. This could also move somehow the focus of our research adding some specific aspects of high performance computing and network theory.
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- September 13, 2010 – 9:50 am
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- By Luca
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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 studies. What’s really cool is that I won the “Walter Buckley Memorial Award for Excellence in Presenting Sociocybernetics”!!
Here you can check the slides I used during my presentation:
Tagged: award, Buckley, ISA, RC51
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- August 4, 2010 – 4:52 pm
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