We studied how mainstream and alternative media debated COVID-19 vaccines. This was a joint effort between Alfonso Semeraro, Salvatore Vilella and Giancarlo Ruffo (University of…
Posts published in “computational social science”
Toghether with former master’s student Jacopo Lenti, we extended a previous research on the role of the undecided in the pro-vax vs. no-vax debate in…
Paper “Measuring user engagement with low credibility media sources in a controversial online debate“, just published on EPJ Data Science, follows up our previous research…
Abstract We studied international migrations of researchers, scientists, and academics, to better understand the so-called “brain drain” phenomenon, if and how it can be measured,…
Abstract In this paper we propose a data acquisition methodology, and a Machine Learning solution for the partially automated evaluation of real estate properties. The…
With the spread of web 2.0 and digital technologies, the divide between producers and consumers – of culture, of science, of news – has become…
Our analysis of the italian debate around #immigration in Twitter has been published on Future Internet (MDPI – Open Access)! Spoiler alert: political orientation of…
Five Years. Not a Bowie’s song, but the time we took to collect/clean/analyse wire transfers’s data, build a network and get all the necessary authorizations…
Giancarlo Ruffo and Alfonso Semeraro will be giving a tutorial on the current research on misinformation, with a focus on fake-news spreading dynamics and fact-checking.…
Our paper “#Brexit: Leave or remain? the role of user’s community and diachronic evolution on stance detection” (with Mirko Lai, Viviana Patti, and Paolo Rosso)…