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…
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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…
I fiori emotivi del Festival di Sanremo: Catturare le emozioni di 72 anni di canzoni e di reazioni social con l’intelligenza artificiale
Alfonso Semeraro1, Salvatore Vilella1, Riccardo Di Clemente2, Giancarlo Ruffo1 e Massimo Stella3 1 Applied Research on Computational Complex Systems Group, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di…
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…
NATO StratCOM Challenge 2018
Multimedial fake news are a new, challenging problem. Unlike for textual hoaxes, there isn’t a search engine that allows to reconstruct the network of shares…
Our ultimate paper on Anobii is out
The paper “Link creation and information spreading over social and communication ties in an interest-based online social network” has been published in EPJ Data Science,…
New paper in ACM Transaction on the Web (TWEB)
The paper “Friendship prediction and homophily in social media” has been accepted for publication on the ACM Transaction on the Web (TWEB) journal. Abstract Web…