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09/15/2023
Narratives of War: Ukrainian Memetic Warfare on Twitter
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has seen an intensification in the ...
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06/05/2023
Hyper-distance Oracles in Hypergraphs
We study point-to-point distance estimation in hypergraphs, where the qu...
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03/16/2023
Authority without Care: Moral Values behind the Mask Mandate Response
Face masks are one of the cheapest and most effective non-pharmaceutical...
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02/15/2023
Evidence of Demographic rather than Ideological Segregation in News Discussion on Reddit
We evaluate homophily and heterophily among ideological and demographic ...
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02/08/2023
The Thin Ideology of Populist Advertising on Facebook during the 2019 EU Elections
Social media has been an important tool in the expansion of the populist...
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10/31/2022
The language of opinion change on social media under the lens of communicative action
Which messages are more effective at inducing a change of opinion in the...
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08/31/2022
Multiscale Non-stationary Causal Structure Learning from Time Series Data
This paper introduces a new type of causal structure, namely multiscale ...
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07/25/2022
On the Relation Between Opinion Change and Information Consumption on Reddit
While much attention has been devoted to the causes of opinion change, l...
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05/10/2022
On learning agent-based models from data
Agent-Based Models (ABMs) are used in several fields to study the evolut...
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04/30/2022
Modeling Political Activism around Gun Debate via Social Media
The United States have some of the highest rates of gun violence among d...
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01/20/2022
FreSCo: Mining Frequent Patterns in Simplicial Complexes
Simplicial complexes are a generalization of graphs that model higher-or...
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11/09/2021
The Evolving Causal Structure of Equity Risk Factors
In recent years, multi-factor strategies have gained increasing populari...
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07/15/2021
From Reddit to Wall Street: The role of committed minorities in financial collective action
In January 2021, retail investors coordinated on Reddit to target short ...
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03/16/2021
Clandestino or Rifugiato? Anti-immigration Facebook Ad Targeting in Italy
Monitoring advertising around controversial issues is an important step ...
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10/09/2020
Facebook Ads: Politics of Migration in Italy
Targeted online advertising is on the forefront of political communicati...
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06/02/2020
Learning Opinion Dynamics From Social Traces
Opinion dynamics - the research field dealing with how people's opinions...
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05/04/2020
Roots of Trumpism: Homophily and Social Feedback in Donald Trump Support on Reddit
We study the emergence of support for Donald Trump in Reddit's political...
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04/20/2020
Echo Chambers on Social Media: A comparative analysis
Recent studies have shown that online users tend to select information a...
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03/26/2020
Falling into the Echo Chamber: the Italian Vaccination Debate on Twitter
The reappearance of measles in the US and Europe, a disease considered e...
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03/07/2020
Aion: Better Late than Never in Event-Time Streams
Processing data streams in near real-time is an increasingly important t...
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10/04/2019
Predicting the Role of Political Trolls in Social Media
We investigate the political roles of "Internet trolls" in social media....
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02/08/2019
Link Prediction via Higher-Order Motif Features
Link prediction requires predicting which new links are likely to appear...
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09/02/2018
Mining Frequent Patterns in Evolving Graphs
Given a labeled graph, the frequent-subgraph mining (FSM) problem asks t...
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05/26/2018
Large-Scale Learning from Data Streams with Apache SAMOA
Apache SAMOA (Scalable Advanced Massive Online Analysis) is an open-sour...
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02/07/2018
Road Network Fusion for Incremental Map Updates
In the recent years a number of novel, automatic map-inference technique...
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07/28/2016
