With the spread of web 2.0 and digital technologies, the divide between producers and consumers – of culture, of science, of news – has become…
Posts published in “computational social science”
Our study on “Immigration as a Divisive Topic” is out on Future Internet
Our analysis of the italian debate around #immigration in Twitter has been published on Future Internet (MDPI – Open Access)! Spoiler alert: political orientation of…
The emergence of structural inequalities from a nation-wide wire transfers network
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…
“Research trends on misinformation” tutorial at DSAA 2020
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 latest on Brexit and stance detection is out
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)…
Our test “Can you spot fake-news?” is on line
After many months (if not years) of design, check, re-design cycles, we are finally proud to announce that our test “”Can you spot fake-news?” is…
“News and the City” is finally out! Check out EPJ Data Science
“News and the city: understanding online press consumption patterns through mobile data” has been accepted and published as regular paper in EPJ Data Science. It…
Check out our latest: “Fact-checking strategies to limit urban legends spreading in a segregated society” on Applied Network Science (Open Access)
Our latest “Fact-checking strategies to limit urban legends spreading in a segregated society” is finally out and accessible as open access. Published by Applied Network…
Check out our new paper on “Data & Knowledge Engineering” Journal
Our paper “Stance polarity in political debates: A diachronic perspective of network homophily and conversations on Twitter” is finally published on line. Check it out!…
Magda Fontana and Martina Iori on “Monodisciplinary vs. Interdisciplinary novelty”, May 7th, 2019
Multidisciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity are considered key factors for success in science. However, empirical evidence is hard to find, also because many measures to assess success…