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”
The role of undecided in the vax vs no vax controversy
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…
Migration, online debates, and information manipulation
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…
“Measuring scientific brain drain with hubs and authorities: A dual perspective” is out!
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,…
“Developing Real Estate Automated Valuation Models by Learning from Heterogeneous Data Sources” is out!
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…
Age of misinformation: an interdisciplinary outlook on fake news
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 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)…