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…
Posts published in “computational social science”
Our latest paper is out: “Contro L’Odio”: A Platform for Detecting, Monitoring and Visualizing Hate Speech against Immigrants in Italian Social Media.
Abstract The paper describes the Web platform built within the project “Contro l’Odio”, for monitoring and contrasting discrimination and hate speech against immigrants in Italy.…
“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…
Mirko Lai is a new PhD Graduate: congratulations!
Mirko Lai successfully defended his thesis “Language and Structure in Polarized Communities” on Feb. 11th, 2019. The examination board (Prof. Leo Ferres, Prof. Delfina Malandrino,…
Our dataviz paper on “Contro l’odio” is out!
Our first paper describing the first released draft of the “Contro l’Odio” data visualization platform, has been published in the Proc. of the 2nd International…
Check out our new paper on misinformation and fact-checking!
Our paper “Network segregation in a model of misinformation and fact-checking” has been published on line in the Computational Social Science Journal (Springer). Co-authors are…
Ann Samoilenko and Santo Fortunato: special guests on October 13th
We are proud to welcome two visitors in our department. Prof. Santo Fortunato, full professor at Indiana University, is one of the most important network…