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Questioning the impact of AI and interdisciplinarity in science: Lessons from COVID-19
Diletta Abbonato, Stefano Bianchini, Floriana Gargiulo +1
Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most promising technologies to support COVID-19 research, with interdisciplinary collaborations between medical professionals…
Doing data science with platforms crumbs: an investigation into fakes views on YouTube
Maria Castaldo, Paolo Frasca, Tommaso Venturini +1
This paper contributes to the ongoing discussions on the scholarly access to social media data, discussing a case where this access is barred despite its value for understanding an…
On Online Attention Dynamics
Maria Castaldo, Paolo Frasca, Tommaso Venturini
This work aims at emphasizing a number of questions that, although crucial since the early days of media studies, have not yet been the object of the empirical and computational st…
Healthy Twitter discussions? Time will tell
Dmitry Gnatyshak, Dario Garcia-Gasulla, Sergio Alvarez-Napagao +2
Studying misinformation and how to deal with unhealthy behaviours within online discussions has recently become an important field of research within social studies. With the rapid…
Predicting the Factuality of Reporting of News Media Using Observations About User Attention in Their YouTube Channels
Krasimira Bozhanova, Yoan Dinkov, Ivan Koychev +3
We propose a novel framework for predicting the factuality of reporting of news media outlets by studying the user attention cycles in their YouTube channels. In particular, we des…
The Rhythms of the Night: increase in online night activity and emotional resilience during the Spring 2020 Covid-19 lockdown
Maria Castaldo, Tommaso Venturini, Paolo Frasca +1
Context. The lockdown orders established in multiple countries in response to the Covid-19 pandemics are arguably one of the most widespread and deepest shock experienced by societ…