ICWSM12 conference paper available

Thanks to the great AAAI digital library the ICWSM12 conference version of our paper “Conversation Practices and Network Structure in Twitter” is now available. You really should check out all the papers (short and full) that have been presented in Dublin. Here you can see the poster that we’ve presented there:

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Conversation practices and network structure in Twitter – SIGSNA paper at ICWSM12

Our paper Conversation practices and network structure in Twitter has been accepted as poster paper for the upcoming International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM12) that will be held in Dublin in June. We are really happy to be part of the conference of many reasons. On one side ICWSM is an interesting venue where researchers coming both from the computer sciences and from the social sciences have the opportunity to come together presenting their own researches and approaches. As we know from our personal experience that is not an easy dialogue but it is really valuable.

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Upcoming conferences and activities

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.

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Information monitoring, propagation analysis and community detection in Social Network Sites

[Italian version] We are happy to announce that the SIGSNA team has just been awarded of some new research funds. The funds coming from the FIRB – future in research – funding action of the Italian Minister of Research and University are awarded only to young researcher under the age of 32 yo. Our research [...]

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PRIN: Online social relations and identity: Italian experience in Social Network Sites.

We are happy to announce that the SIGSNA team is now officially part of a larger research group, counting 5 Italian universities (University of Urbino, University of Bologna, Catholic University of Milano, University of Bergamo, Calabria University), that has recently been awarded of PRIN research funds for the project: Online social relations and identity: Italian [...]

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ASONAM 2011 – Best Paper Award!

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Multi-Layer Networks: data available

We have made the data of our latest work on multi-layer networks available in the Data section. The zip file contains two networks in cvs format, one between twitter users and the other between friendfeed users, and a file with account correspondences indicating pairs of accounts in twitter and friendfeed belonging to the same person. [...]

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The ML-model for multi-layer social networks

In few weeks we’re going to Kaohsiung, Taiwan to present at the International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2011). We’re really excited about this conference (last year was great!) and we want to share the paper we’re presenting. It’s been a while since we’ve started working on the ML model [...]

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Ustation interviews Matteo about the SIGSNA project

Ustation – national webzine about university – recently made a long interview with Matteo about the SIGSNA project. The interview (in Italian) is available on their website and can be listened here:

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