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Abc
1 postPosts tagged with "ABC"
Posts tagged with "Data Analytics in the Social Sciences"
Italy
1 postPosts tagged with "Italy"
Posts tagged with "LinkedIn"
- LinkedIn: Riding information crisis (May 2023)
M5s
5 postsAnalysis, commentary, and research on the Five Star Movement (Movimento 5 Stelle) in Italian politics.
- Presentation @ WSU: Breaking out of Legacy Mobilization Networks (Oct 2024)
- Presentation @ ICA 2024: Affording Fragmented Audiences: Multi-Platform Deliberation Within the Five Star Movement (Jun 2024)
- Radio Interview w/t SBS: Relazioni tra Italia e Australia, un nuovo libro esamina il presente guardando al futuro (Feb 2024)
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Mixed-methods
1 postPosts tagged with "Mixed-methods"
Network analysis
2 postsPosts tagged with "Network analysis"
Political participation
2 postsPosts tagged with "Political participation"
Populism
1 postPosts tagged with "Populism"
Research design
1 postPosts tagged with "Research design"
The conversation
3 postsPosts tagged with "The Conversation"
- The Conversation: AI is moving fast. Climate policy provides valuable lessons for how to keep it in check (May 2025)
- The Conversation: Meta just closed a vital online research tool. It’s bad news for the fight against misinformation (Aug 2024)
- The Conversation: Conspiracy theorist tactics show it's too easy to get around Facebook's content policies (Mar 2024)
Posts tagged with "Twitter"
- Twitter: Riding information crisis (May 2023)
Undersphere
1 postPosts tagged with "Undersphere"
- Why AI Governance Needs a Rethink (May 2025)
Youtube
4 postsPosts tagged with "YouTube"
Amartya-sen
2 postsPosts tagged with "amartya-sen"
- Eyes on Guatemala (Aug 2009)
- Understanding Capitalism (Mar 2009)
Artificial-intelligence
1 postPosts tagged with "artificial-intelligence"
- On the Evolution of Thinking (Jun 2009)
Bottom-billion
2 postsPosts tagged with "bottom-billion"
- Information Flows on Mobiles (Apr 2009)
- Brain matters (Mar 2009)
Posts tagged with "centre-for-research-on-the-epidemiology-of-disasters"
- Hard Numbers, Hard Times (Apr 2009)
Civil-war
2 postsPosts tagged with "civil-war"
- Wars in the Backyard (Mar 2009)
- Truth, finally. Maybe (Feb 2009)
Climate-related-disasters
1 postPosts tagged with "climate-related-disasters"
- Hard Numbers, Hard Times (Apr 2009)
Posts tagged with "comision-para-el-esclarecimiento-historico"
- Truth, finally. Maybe (Feb 2009)
Dani-rodrik
1 postPosts tagged with "dani-rodrik"
- Economic Gains Do Not Mean Political Gains (May 2009)
Gilat-levy
1 postPosts tagged with "gilat-levy"
- Economic Gains Do Not Mean Political Gains (May 2009)
Guatemala
6 postsPosts tagged with "guatemala"
- Eyes on Guatemala (Aug 2009)
- Human Rights in Guatemala (Mar 2009)
- Wars in the Backyard (Mar 2009)
- View all 6 posts →
High-commissioner
1 postPosts tagged with "high-commissioner"
- Human Rights in Guatemala (Mar 2009)
Human-rights
1 postPosts tagged with "human-rights"
- Human Rights in Guatemala (Mar 2009)
Human-rights-watch
1 postPosts tagged with "human-rights-watch"
- Detained and Dismissed (Mar 2009)
Information
1 postPosts tagged with "information"
- Information Flows on Mobiles (Apr 2009)
Posts tagged with "institute-of-international-finance"
- Crisis from the South /2 (Mar 2009)
Institutions
2 postsPosts tagged with "institutions"
- Information Flows on Mobiles (Apr 2009)
- Understanding Capitalism (Mar 2009)
Posts tagged with "inter-american-development-bank"
- Crisis from the South /3 (Mar 2009)
Posts tagged with "international-organization-for-migration"
- Crisis from the South (Feb 2009)
Internet
2 postsPosts tagged with "internet"
- The two alternatives to the monasterisation of the World wide web (May 2018)
- WikiPrices (Apr 2009)
Jeremy-hobbs
1 postPosts tagged with "jeremy-hobbs"
- Hard Numbers, Hard Times (Apr 2009)
Kosovo-liberation-army
1 postPosts tagged with "kosovo-liberation-army"
- The Dirt Floats (May 2009)
Latin-america
2 postsPosts tagged with "latin-america"
- Crisis from the South /3 (Mar 2009)
- Crisis from the South /2 (Mar 2009)
Link
15 postsPosts tagged with "link"
- The Conversation: Digital platforms are now the ultimate political power brokers, with consequences for democracy (Sep 2025)
- Political Communication: Affording Fragmented Audiences: Multi-Platform Deliberation within the Five Star Movement (Aug 2025)
- TikTok: Should celebs and influencers speak their mind on social issues? (Jun 2025)
- View all 15 posts →
Maryanne-wolf
1 postPosts tagged with "maryanne-wolf"
- On the Evolution of Thinking (Jun 2009)
Millennium-development-goal
1 postPosts tagged with "millennium-development-goal"
- Back into Poverty (Jun 2009)
Mobile-banking
1 postPosts tagged with "mobile-banking"
- Information Flows on Mobiles (Apr 2009)
National-security-archive
1 postPosts tagged with "national-security-archive"
- Wars in the Backyard (Mar 2009)
Nicholas-carr
1 postPosts tagged with "nicholas-carr"
- On the Evolution of Thinking (Jun 2009)
Oriana-bandiera
1 postPosts tagged with "oriana-bandiera"
- Economic Gains Do Not Mean Political Gains (May 2009)
Poverty
3 postsPosts tagged with "poverty"
- Back into Poverty (Jun 2009)
- WikiPrices (Apr 2009)
- Information Flows on Mobiles (Apr 2009)
Poverty-reduction
3 postsPosts tagged with "poverty-reduction"
- If the Asian Growth Model is not Working Anymore (May 2009)
- Brain matters (Mar 2009)
- Crisis from the South (Feb 2009)
Private-international-flows
1 postPosts tagged with "private-international-flows"
- Crisis from the South /2 (Mar 2009)
Remittance
2 postsPosts tagged with "remittance"
- Crisis from the South /3 (Mar 2009)
- Crisis from the South (Feb 2009)
Semantic-analysis
1 postPosts tagged with "semantic-analysis"
- Explicit semantic analysis with R (Apr 2016)
Text-analysis
1 postPosts tagged with "text-analysis"
- Explicit semantic analysis with R (Apr 2016)
The conversation
1 postPosts tagged with "the Conversation"
The-atlantic
1 postPosts tagged with "the-atlantic"
- On the Evolution of Thinking (Jun 2009)
Trade-liberalization
1 postPosts tagged with "trade-liberalization"
- Economic Gains Do Not Mean Political Gains (May 2009)
Trade-theories
1 postPosts tagged with "trade-theories"
- Economic Gains Do Not Mean Political Gains (May 2009)
United-nations
1 postPosts tagged with "united-nations"
- Human Rights in Guatemala (Mar 2009)
Posts tagged with "united-nations-industrial-development-organization"
- Economic Gains Do Not Mean Political Gains (May 2009)
Posts tagged with "united-nations-standing-committee-on-nutrition"
- Back into Poverty (Jun 2009)
United-states
2 postsPosts tagged with "united-states"
- Detained and Dismissed (Mar 2009)
- Wars in the Backyard (Mar 2009)
Wikipedia
1 postPosts tagged with "wikipedia"
- Explicit semantic analysis with R (Apr 2016)
Women-rights
1 postPosts tagged with "women-rights"
- Detained and Dismissed (Mar 2009)
World-bank
2 postsPosts tagged with "world-bank"
- Back into Poverty (Jun 2009)
- Crisis from the South (Feb 2009)
All Posts by Tag
Abc
ABC Religion & Ethics: Concerns over DeepSeek should prompt us to reconsider the data we leave behind on other platforms Permalink
Ai
Why AI Governance Needs a Rethink
As AI systems become more powerful and accessible, we’re witnessing a surge in unintended, fringe uses that current regulatory frameworks can’t keep up with....
Bayesian analysis
Presentation @ WSU: Breaking out of Legacy Mobilization Networks
This study explores the Internet’s role in mobilizing outside traditional social capital networks, focusing on Italy’s Five Star Movement (M5S) and its use o...
Canvas
Using r/exams in SSPS4102 Data Analytics in the Social Sciences
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...
Content moderation
Meta wants to get politics out of its platforms. Is this good or bad for democracy?
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...
Data analytics in the social sciences
Using r/exams in SSPS4102 Data Analytics in the Social Sciences
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...
Meta wants to get politics out of its platforms. Is this good or bad for democracy?
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...
Information disorder
Presentation @ ASNAC 2023: Measuring information disorder
In this paper, I introduce a robust framework for quantifying ‘information disorder’ within diverse information spaces, detailing its measurement methodology...
Italy
Radio Interview w/t SBS: Relazioni tra Italia e Australia, un nuovo libro esamina il presente guardando al futuro
Focus on personal networks, social capital, and the Internet’s role in mobilising Italy’s Five Star Movement (M5S).
M5s
Presentation @ WSU: Breaking out of Legacy Mobilization Networks
This study explores the Internet’s role in mobilizing outside traditional social capital networks, focusing on Italy’s Five Star Movement (M5S) and its use o...
Presentation @ ICA 2024: Affording Fragmented Audiences: Multi-Platform Deliberation Within the Five Star Movement
The online ecosystems of political movements are not confined to single platforms; rather, they span multiple platforms, each offering unique affordances and...
Radio Interview w/t SBS: Relazioni tra Italia e Australia, un nuovo libro esamina il presente guardando al futuro
Focus on personal networks, social capital, and the Internet’s role in mobilising Italy’s Five Star Movement (M5S).
Presentation @ ASQPS 2023: Levelling at the margin: Personal networks, social capital and the Internet in the mobilisation of the Five Star Movement
Focus on personal networks, social capital, and the Internet’s role in mobilising Italy’s Five Star Movement (M5S).
Presentation @ APSA 2023: Online and offline social capital as catalyst for political mobilisation
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...
Meta
Meta wants to get politics out of its platforms. Is this good or bad for democracy?
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...
Mixed-methods
Presentation @ Uni Trento: Collaborative Use of Wikibase for Interdisciplinary Mixed-Methods Research
Our upcoming book Collaborative Use of Wikibase for Interdisciplinary Mixed-Methods Research outlines how research teams can utilise Wikibase to manage, inte...
Network analysis
Presentation @ ICA 2024: Affording Fragmented Audiences: Multi-Platform Deliberation Within the Five Star Movement
The online ecosystems of political movements are not confined to single platforms; rather, they span multiple platforms, each offering unique affordances and...
Presentation @ ASNAC 2023: Measuring information disorder
In this paper, I introduce a robust framework for quantifying ‘information disorder’ within diverse information spaces, detailing its measurement methodology...
Political participation
Presentation @ ASQPS 2023: Levelling at the margin: Personal networks, social capital and the Internet in the mobilisation of the Five Star Movement
Focus on personal networks, social capital, and the Internet’s role in mobilising Italy’s Five Star Movement (M5S).
Presentation @ APSA 2023: Online and offline social capital as catalyst for political mobilisation
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...
Populism
Radio Interview w/t SBS: Relazioni tra Italia e Australia, un nuovo libro esamina il presente guardando al futuro
Focus on personal networks, social capital, and the Internet’s role in mobilising Italy’s Five Star Movement (M5S).
Predictions
Presentation @ Uni Trento: Quantifying Perceptions of Violence on YouTube
This study presents an innovative approach to quantifying perceptions of violence by leveraging geolocated YouTube comments. By developing a granular, spatia...
Research design
Presentation @ Uni Trento: Collaborative Use of Wikibase for Interdisciplinary Mixed-Methods Research
Our upcoming book Collaborative Use of Wikibase for Interdisciplinary Mixed-Methods Research outlines how research teams can utilise Wikibase to manage, inte...
Rexams
Using r/exams in SSPS4102 Data Analytics in the Social Sciences
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...
Ssps4102
Using r/exams in SSPS4102 Data Analytics in the Social Sciences
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...
Spotify
Checks and Challanges Podcast: Digital Politics: The Tech Broligarchy w/ Dr. Francesco Bailo Permalink
The conversation
The Conversation: AI is moving fast. Climate policy provides valuable lessons for how to keep it in check Permalink
The Conversation: Meta just closed a vital online research tool. It’s bad news for the fight against misinformation Permalink
The Conversation: Conspiracy theorist tactics show it’s too easy to get around Facebook’s content policies Permalink
Twitter: Riding information crisis Permalink
🚨 New paper out with @icsjournal with @ameliajohns13 and @andrei_rizoiu on information crises and disorders. 🚨We find that far-right accounts overperformed o...
Undersphere
Why AI Governance Needs a Rethink
As AI systems become more powerful and accessible, we’re witnessing a surge in unintended, fringe uses that current regulatory frameworks can’t keep up with....
Youtube
Presentation @ Uni Trento: Quantifying Perceptions of Violence on YouTube
This study presents an innovative approach to quantifying perceptions of violence by leveraging geolocated YouTube comments. By developing a granular, spatia...
Adam-smith
Understanding Capitalism
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...
Afghanistan
NDVI, risk assessment and developing countries
The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) estimates the greenness of plants covering the surface of the Earth by measuring the light reflected by the...
Albania
The Dirt Floats
The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...
Alvaro-colom
Truth, finally. Maybe
Guatemalan newspaper La Hora affirms that, for the first time, the government will hand to the ministerio público (attorney general) the military archives r...
Amartya-sen
Eyes on Guatemala
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...
Understanding Capitalism
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...
Amazon
Selva Amazónica, More Valuable Standing Than Felled
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 ...
Artificial-intelligence
On the Evolution of Thinking
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...
Balkans
The Dirt Floats
The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...
Bottom-billion
Information Flows on Mobiles
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...
Brain matters
Saying that education strengths economic growth sounds good old common sense. But proving and measuring this relation is not immediate and therefore interest...
Ceku
The Dirt Floats
The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...
Centre-for-research-on-the-epidemiology-of-disasters
Hard Numbers, Hard Times
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%. ...
China
If the Asian Growth Model is not Working Anymore
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...
Civil-war
Wars in the Backyard
The National Security Archive has just declassified eleven documents on the extra judicial arrests conducted 25 years ago by the government of Guatemala. It ...
Truth, finally. Maybe
Guatemalan newspaper La Hora affirms that, for the first time, the government will hand to the ministerio público (attorney general) the military archives r...
Climate-related-disasters
Hard Numbers, Hard Times
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%. ...
Cloudstor
How to sync your Zotero library (and files) with WebDAV
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...
Comision-para-el-esclarecimiento-historico
Truth, finally. Maybe
Guatemalan newspaper La Hora affirms that, for the first time, the government will hand to the ministerio público (attorney general) the military archives r...
Crisis
Understanding Capitalism
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...
Cso
NDVI, risk assessment and developing countries
The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) estimates the greenness of plants covering the surface of the Earth by measuring the light reflected by the...
Dani-rodrik
Economic Gains Do Not Mean Political Gains
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...
Data
The two alternatives to the monasterisation of the World wide web
Saint Michael's Abbey, in the Susa Valley, Piedmont. Source: Wikipedia
Deforestation
Selva Amazónica, More Valuable Standing Than Felled
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 ...
Detention
Detained and Dismissed
Human Rights Watch has just published a detailed report on Women’s Struggles to Obtain Health Care in United States Immigration Detention. Immigration detent...
Development
If the Asian Growth Model is not Working Anymore
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...
Drought-assessment
NDVI, risk assessment and developing countries
The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) estimates the greenness of plants covering the surface of the Earth by measuring the light reflected by the...
Erik-hersman
WikiPrices
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% ...
Ex-yugoslavia
The Dirt Floats
The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...
Flows
Information Flows on Mobiles
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...
Food-scarcity
Eyes on Guatemala
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...
Gilat-levy
Economic Gains Do Not Mean Political Gains
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...
Gis
Are you parallelizing your raster operations? You should!
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...
2018 Italian general election: Details on my simulation
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...
NDVI, risk assessment and developing countries
The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) estimates the greenness of plants covering the surface of the Earth by measuring the light reflected by the...
On the Evolution of Thinking
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...
Growth-model
If the Asian Growth Model is not Working Anymore
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...
Guatemala
Eyes on Guatemala
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...
Human Rights in Guatemala
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...
Wars in the Backyard
The National Security Archive has just declassified eleven documents on the extra judicial arrests conducted 25 years ago by the government of Guatemala. It ...
Crisis from the South /3
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...
Truth, finally. Maybe
Guatemalan newspaper La Hora affirms that, for the first time, the government will hand to the ministerio público (attorney general) the military archives r...
Crisis from the South
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...
Hanushek
Brain matters
Saying that education strengths economic growth sounds good old common sense. But proving and measuring this relation is not immediate and therefore interest...
Health-care
Detained and Dismissed
Human Rights Watch has just published a detailed report on Women’s Struggles to Obtain Health Care in United States Immigration Detention. Immigration detent...
High-commissioner
Human Rights in Guatemala
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...
How-to
How to sync your Zotero library (and files) with WebDAV
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...
Human-development-index
Selva Amazónica, More Valuable Standing Than Felled
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 ...
Human-rights
Human Rights in Guatemala
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...
Human-rights-watch
Detained and Dismissed
Human Rights Watch has just published a detailed report on Women’s Struggles to Obtain Health Care in United States Immigration Detention. Immigration detent...
Humanitarianresponse
NDVI, risk assessment and developing countries
The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) estimates the greenness of plants covering the surface of the Earth by measuring the light reflected by the...
Hunger
Eyes on Guatemala
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...
Immigration
Detained and Dismissed
Human Rights Watch has just published a detailed report on Women’s Struggles to Obtain Health Care in United States Immigration Detention. Immigration detent...
Inequality
Eyes on Guatemala
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...
Information
Information Flows on Mobiles
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...
Institute-of-international-finance
Crisis from the South /2
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...
Institutions
Information Flows on Mobiles
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...
Understanding Capitalism
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...
Inter-american-development-bank
Crisis from the South /3
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...
International-organization-for-migration
Crisis from the South
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...
Internet
The two alternatives to the monasterisation of the World wide web
Saint Michael's Abbey, in the Susa Valley, Piedmont. Source: Wikipedia
WikiPrices
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% ...
Jamison
Brain matters
Saying that education strengths economic growth sounds good old common sense. But proving and measuring this relation is not immediate and therefore interest...
Jeremy-hobbs
Hard Numbers, Hard Times
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%. ...
Karaj
The Dirt Floats
The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...
Keynes
Understanding Capitalism
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...
Kla
The Dirt Floats
The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...
Kosovo-liberation-army
The Dirt Floats
The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...
Kukes
The Dirt Floats
The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...
Latin-america
Crisis from the South /3
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...
Crisis from the South /2
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...
Link
The Conversation: Digital platforms are now the ultimate political power brokers, with consequences for democracy Permalink
Political Communication: Affording Fragmented Audiences: Multi-Platform Deliberation within the Five Star Movement Permalink
The Conversation: AI is moving fast. Climate policy provides valuable lessons for how to keep it in check Permalink
Journal of Information Technology & Politics: Breaking out of legacy mobilization networks: How the Internet reaches and activates the politically disengaged Permalink
Checks and Challanges Podcast: Digital Politics: The Tech Broligarchy w/ Dr. Francesco Bailo Permalink
ABC Religion & Ethics: Concerns over DeepSeek should prompt us to reconsider the data we leave behind on other platforms Permalink
The Conversation: Meta just closed a vital online research tool. It’s bad news for the fight against misinformation Permalink
The Conversation: Conspiracy theorist tactics show it’s too easy to get around Facebook’s content policies Permalink
Twitter: Riding information crisis Permalink
🚨 New paper out with @icsjournal with @ameliajohns13 and @andrei_rizoiu on information crises and disorders. 🚨We find that far-right accounts overperformed o...
Lucas-garcia
Truth, finally. Maybe
Guatemalan newspaper La Hora affirms that, for the first time, the government will hand to the ministerio público (attorney general) the military archives r...
M5s
Cosa possiamo imparare dal M5S
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...
Malnutrition
Back into Poverty
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...
Market
Information Flows on Mobiles
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...
Maryanne-wolf
On the Evolution of Thinking
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...
Maya
Truth, finally. Maybe
Guatemalan newspaper La Hora affirms that, for the first time, the government will hand to the ministerio público (attorney general) the military archives r...
Mejia
Wars in the Backyard
The National Security Archive has just declassified eleven documents on the extra judicial arrests conducted 25 years ago by the government of Guatemala. It ...
Michael-pettis
If the Asian Growth Model is not Working Anymore
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...
Millennium-development-goal
Back into Poverty
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...
Mobile
Information Flows on Mobiles
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...
Mobile-banking
Information Flows on Mobiles
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...
Mobile-phone
WikiPrices
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% ...
Montgomery
The Dirt Floats
The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...
National-security-archive
Wars in the Backyard
The National Security Archive has just declassified eleven documents on the extra judicial arrests conducted 25 years ago by the government of Guatemala. It ...
Ndvi
NDVI, risk assessment and developing countries
The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) estimates the greenness of plants covering the surface of the Earth by measuring the light reflected by the...
Ngos
Hard Numbers, Hard Times
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%. ...
Nicholas-carr
On the Evolution of Thinking
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...
Nlp
Explicit semantic analysis with R
Explicit semantic analysis (ESA) was proposed by Gabrilovich and Markovitch (2007) to compute a document position in a high-dimensional concept space. At the...
Ocha
NDVI, risk assessment and developing countries
The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) estimates the greenness of plants covering the surface of the Earth by measuring the light reflected by the...
Oriana-bandiera
Economic Gains Do Not Mean Political Gains
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...
Oxfam
Hard Numbers, Hard Times
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%. ...
Phone
Information Flows on Mobiles
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...
Pigou
Understanding Capitalism
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...
Poverty
Back into Poverty
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...
WikiPrices
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% ...
Information Flows on Mobiles
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...
Poverty-reduction
If the Asian Growth Model is not Working Anymore
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...
Brain matters
Saying that education strengths economic growth sounds good old common sense. But proving and measuring this relation is not immediate and therefore interest...
Crisis from the South
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...
Private-international-flows
Crisis from the South /2
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...
Raster
Are you parallelizing your raster operations? You should!
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...
Raxhimi
The Dirt Floats
The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...
Remittance
Crisis from the South /3
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...
Crisis from the South
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...
Rios-montt
Truth, finally. Maybe
Guatemalan newspaper La Hora affirms that, for the first time, the government will hand to the ministerio público (attorney general) the military archives r...
Risk-assessment
NDVI, risk assessment and developing countries
The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) estimates the greenness of plants covering the surface of the Earth by measuring the light reflected by the...
Rstat
2018 Italian general election: Details on my simulation
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...
Rstats
Are you parallelizing your raster operations? You should!
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...
Rwanda
Information Flows on Mobiles
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...
Science
Selva Amazónica, More Valuable Standing Than Felled
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 ...
Semantic-analysis
Explicit semantic analysis with R
Explicit semantic analysis (ESA) was proposed by Gabrilovich and Markovitch (2007) to compute a document position in a high-dimensional concept space. At the...
Services
Information Flows on Mobiles
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...
Simulation
2018 Italian general election: Details on my simulation
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...
Sms
WikiPrices
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% ...
Sync
How to sync your Zotero library (and files) with WebDAV
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...
Tax-reform
Eyes on Guatemala
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...
Text-analysis
Explicit semantic analysis with R
Explicit semantic analysis (ESA) was proposed by Gabrilovich and Markovitch (2007) to compute a document position in a high-dimensional concept space. At the...
Thaci
The Dirt Floats
The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...
The conversation
The Conversation: Digital platforms are now the ultimate political power brokers, with consequences for democracy Permalink
The-atlantic
On the Evolution of Thinking
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...
The-economist
Eyes on Guatemala
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...
Trade-liberalization
Economic Gains Do Not Mean Political Gains
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...
Trade-theories
Economic Gains Do Not Mean Political Gains
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...
WikiPrices
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% ...
Uck
The Dirt Floats
The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...
United-nations
Human Rights in Guatemala
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...
United-nations-industrial-development-organization
Economic Gains Do Not Mean Political Gains
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...
United-nations-standing-committee-on-nutrition
Back into Poverty
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...
United-states
Detained and Dismissed
Human Rights Watch has just published a detailed report on Women’s Struggles to Obtain Health Care in United States Immigration Detention. Immigration detent...
Wars in the Backyard
The National Security Archive has just declassified eleven documents on the extra judicial arrests conducted 25 years ago by the government of Guatemala. It ...
Webdav
How to sync your Zotero library (and files) with WebDAV
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...
White-african
WikiPrices
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% ...
Wiki
WikiPrices
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% ...
Wikipedia
Explicit semantic analysis with R
Explicit semantic analysis (ESA) was proposed by Gabrilovich and Markovitch (2007) to compute a document position in a high-dimensional concept space. At the...
Woessmann
Brain matters
Saying that education strengths economic growth sounds good old common sense. But proving and measuring this relation is not immediate and therefore interest...
Women-rights
Detained and Dismissed
Human Rights Watch has just published a detailed report on Women’s Struggles to Obtain Health Care in United States Immigration Detention. Immigration detent...
World-bank
Back into Poverty
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...
Crisis from the South
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...
Zotero
How to sync your Zotero library (and files) with WebDAV
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...