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Focus on personal networks, social capital, and the Internet’s role in mobilising Italy’s Five Star Movement (M5S).
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Online communities and crowds in the rise of the Five Star Movement
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Truth, finally. Maybe
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Riding information crises: The performance of far-right Twitter users in Australia during the 2019–2020 bushfires and the COVID-19 pandemic
This paper focuses on the performance of the far-right community in the Australian Twittersphere during two information crises: the 2019–2020 Australian bush...
erik-hersman
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
information crisis
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Riding information crises: The performance of far-right Twitter users in Australia during the 2019–2020 bushfires and the COVID-19 pandemic
This paper focuses on the performance of the far-right community in the Australian Twittersphere during two information crises: the 2019–2020 Australian bush...
institute-of-international-finance
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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% ...
interstate conflict
Peer-Reviewed Articles
No paradox here? Improving theory and testing of the nuclear stability–instability paradox with synthetic counterfactuals
This article contributes to both the theoretical elaboration and empirical testing of the ‘stability–instability paradox’, the proposition that while nuclear...
jamison
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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
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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%. ...
journalism
Peer-Reviewed Articles
The institutional impacts of algorithmic distribution: Facebook and the Australian news media
Since changing its algorithm in January 2018 to boost the content of family and friends over other content (including news), Facebook has signaled that it is...
karaj
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Policymaker: Why Australia needs a healthier information ecosystem, not just fact-checks Permalink
📝 Mapping violence perceptions through YouTube comments: A new approach to real-time violence monitoring Permalink
📝 Submission to the 2025 Review of the Australian Code of Practice on Disinformation and Misinformation Permalink
Panel presentation: Divided or United? The Psychology Behind Polarisation and the Search for Common Ground Permalink
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Posts
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
Posts
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...
misinformation
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Labelling, shadow bans and community resistance: Did Meta’s strategy to suppress rather than remove COVID misinformation and conspiracy theory on Facebook slow the spread?
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of Meta’s content moderation on Facebook during the COVID-19 pandemic, analyzing 18 Australian right-wing/anti-vaccina...
News Articles
Why Australia needs a healthier information ecosystem, not just fact-checks
Australia must move beyond fact‑checking alone and focus on building a healthier, more resilient information ecosystem that supports trust, quality informati...
How can users discern the truth amid AI, fake news and social media?
Francesco Bailo. The Canberra Times. 22 December 2025.
mobile
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
network analysis
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Mapping online political talks through network analysis: A case study of the website of Italy’s Five Star Movement
Understanding relations among online users involved in political discussions can help us understand similarities and differences with corresponding offline i...
news
Peer-Reviewed Articles
The institutional impacts of algorithmic distribution: Facebook and the Australian news media
Since changing its algorithm in January 2018 to boost the content of family and friends over other content (including news), Facebook has signaled that it is...
ngos
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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
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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
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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...
nuclear deterrence
Peer-Reviewed Articles
No paradox here? Improving theory and testing of the nuclear stability–instability paradox with synthetic counterfactuals
This article contributes to both the theoretical elaboration and empirical testing of the ‘stability–instability paradox’, the proposition that while nuclear...
nuclear weapons
Peer-Reviewed Articles
No paradox here? Improving theory and testing of the nuclear stability–instability paradox with synthetic counterfactuals
This article contributes to both the theoretical elaboration and empirical testing of the ‘stability–instability paradox’, the proposition that while nuclear...
ocha
Posts
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...
online deliberation
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Mapping online political talks through network analysis: A case study of the website of Italy’s Five Star Movement
Understanding relations among online users involved in political discussions can help us understand similarities and differences with corresponding offline i...
oriana-bandiera
Posts
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
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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
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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
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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...
podcast
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Back to Top ↑political discussion
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Mapping online political talks through network analysis: A case study of the website of Italy’s Five Star Movement
Understanding relations among online users involved in political discussions can help us understand similarities and differences with corresponding offline i...
political participation
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Mapping online political talks through network analysis: A case study of the website of Italy’s Five Star Movement
Understanding relations among online users involved in political discussions can help us understand similarities and differences with corresponding offline i...
poverty
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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
Posts
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Posts
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Posts
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
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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...
shadowbanning
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Labelling, shadow bans and community resistance: Did Meta’s strategy to suppress rather than remove COVID misinformation and conspiracy theory on Facebook slow the spread?
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of Meta’s content moderation on Facebook during the COVID-19 pandemic, analyzing 18 Australian right-wing/anti-vaccina...
simulation
Posts
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
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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
Posts
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...
synthetic control method
Peer-Reviewed Articles
No paradox here? Improving theory and testing of the nuclear stability–instability paradox with synthetic counterfactuals
This article contributes to both the theoretical elaboration and empirical testing of the ‘stability–instability paradox’, the proposition that while nuclear...
tax-reform
Posts
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
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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
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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
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the-atlantic
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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
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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
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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
Posts
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...
Posts
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
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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
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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
Posts
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
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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
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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 ...
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...
webdav
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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
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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
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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
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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
Posts
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
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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
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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
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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...
Social Capital
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Breaking out of legacy mobilization networks: How the Internet reaches and activates the politically disengaged
This paper examines how digital media can activate political participation in areas traditionally excluded from social capital networks, focusing on Italy’s ...