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The online ecosystems of political movements are not confined to single platforms; rather, they span multiple platforms, each offering unique affordances and...
For Meta, politics is bad for business. And for two reasons. First, politically charged content and the toxicity surrounding it do not create an attractive s...
Focus on personal networks, social capital, and the Internet’s role in mobilising Italy’s Five Star Movement (M5S).
Focus on personal networks, social capital, and the Internet’s role in mobilising Italy’s Five Star Movement (M5S).
We investigate whether this is the case using responses to an online survey (n = 698) administered to participants at face-to-face meetings organised to supp...
In this paper, I introduce a robust framework for quantifying ‘information disorder’ within diverse information spaces, detailing its measurement methodology...
In October 2023, I was one of the recipients of the Teaching Innovation Awards of the the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the University of Sydney...
🚨 New paper out with @icsjournal with @ameliajohns13 and @andrei_rizoiu on information crises and disorders. 🚨We find that far-right accounts overperformed o...
La crescita di Salvini e della Lega è forse per la politica italiana l’evento più significativo del 2018. Nel gennaio 2018, prima delle elezioni di marzo, la...
La geografia socio-politica delle grandi città italiane del centro-nord è radicalmente cambiata negli ultimi 25 anni. Se osserviamo la distribuzione dei voti...
In this post, I explain how to use an online file storing and sharing service like AARNet’s CloudStor (but any WebDAV service will do) to access and update y...
Demographics information is usually reported in relation to precise boundaries: administrative, electoral, statistical, etc. Comparing demographics informati...
If you plan to do anything with the raster package you should definitely consider parallelize all your processes, especially if you are working with very lar...
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The abundance of economic data and the scarcity of social data with a comparable level of granularity is a problem for the quantitative analysis of social ph...
This simulation of the results for the 2018 general election is based on the results from the last two national elections (the Italian parliament election in...
The 2016 Italian referendum torpedoed the constitutional reform presented by the government presided by Matteo Renzi (41). According to the final count, whic...
Leggo e rispondo al post di Massimo Mantellini (Il M5S, il wifi e il principio di precauzione) in cui si evidenzia con preoccupazione come il Movimento abbia...
The Five Star Movement (M5S) obtained two major victories in the second round of municipal elections on 19 June 2016 in Rome and Turin. Rome attracted the mo...
Explicit semantic analysis (ESA) was proposed by Gabrilovich and Markovitch (2007) to compute a document position in a high-dimensional concept space. At the...
To talk about identity and soul of the Five Star Movement (M5S) is not only politically contentious but also practically challenging because of the different...
The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) estimates the greenness of plants covering the surface of the Earth by measuring the light reflected by the...
The Economist has published an article on malnutrition in Guatemala. Hunger is not new in the country, with half of the children population not eating enough...
Increase in food prices has pushed back into poverty at least 100 million people in 2008 and, according to the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition...
An article published on Science this week analyzes the development of the region across the Amazon deforestation frontier. In three words: boom and bust. It ...
What if we are becoming the very same Artificial Intelligence that we are trying to design? The doubt has has been raised by Nicholas Carr in an article publ...
In 1981 poverty rate in China was 64% of the population, in 2004 the rate was 10%: it means that 500 million people stepped out of poverty (look here and her...
In this post Dani Rodrik explains why trade theories suggest that the U.S. should liberalize trade for agricultural products (especially cotton and sugar) an...
The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...
Let’s try to imagine how a platform to collect and share market price information could work in a country where 46% of the children are malnourished and 80% ...
In a report published today, Oxfam predicts that by 2015 the average number of people affected by climate-related disasters every year will increase by 54%. ...
The idea to use mobile phones (here and here) to help economic development in the most remote corners of the world is fascinating and definitely smart. For o...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has published the Annual Report 2008 on Guatemala. And hardly could have been worse. Last year murder r...
Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen argues, in an article published on The New York Review of Books, that the way out from the crisis passes through a better...
Human Rights Watch has just published a detailed report on Women’s Struggles to Obtain Health Care in United States Immigration Detention. Immigration detent...
The National Security Archive has just declassified eleven documents on the extra judicial arrests conducted 25 years ago by the government of Guatemala. It ...
The Inter-American Development Bank publishes today on its web-site previsions for remittance flows in 2009 to Latin America: they will go down for the first...
Saying that education strengths economic growth sounds good old common sense. But proving and measuring this relation is not immediate and therefore interest...
And it appears that the problem is not just limited to remittances. According to The Institute of International Finance, private financial flows from rich c...
Guatemalan newspaper La Hora affirms that, for the first time, the government will hand to the ministerio público (attorney general) the military archives r...
According to Banco de Guatemala, for the first time since 1999, in January 2009 remittances from abroad decreased by 7.75% compared to the same month in 2008...