The National University of Distance Education organized the II Conference on CyberPolitics held in the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies. The second edition of this conference was intended to discuss the new forms of communication and the impact of ICT in campaigns election and institutions, including new forms of social mobilization in the following … More II Conference on CyberPolitics
The radio program Directe 4.0 (Ràdio 4) invited Andreas Kaltenbrunner and me to discuss the latest research projects conducted by the Social Media Group of Barcelona Media and the social media trends for 2013. In the debate, directed by Xantal Llavina and Bruno Sokolowicz, we explained some of our recent studies on relationships between articles … More Interview on Directe 4.0
Last Saturday, I gave a 4 hour lecture in the “Master in Communication and Marketing Online” offered by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The lecture was devised to provide the students with a basic understanding of main concepts from “Social Network Analysis” addressing the following topics: Introduction to SNA Topology: Structural metrics Influence: Centrality metrics Virality: … More Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Seminar
In the last weekend, the first 15Mdata Hackathon was held at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (theoretical session on Friday) and Ateneu Candela (practical session on Saturday). The event on Friday began with a presentation of our research group (datAnalysis15m) by Arnau Monterde and Javier Toret. Arnau Monterde detailed the following goals for the present year: To establish a … More 15Mdata Hackaton
The Mobile World Congress (MWC2013) has generated nearly 100,000 tweets per day, making it to a Twitter trending topic in Spain between February 25, 10am and 26 February 7pm. In Barcelona Media Research Foundation (member of Tecnio network) we have analyzed tweets containing ‘MWC’, ‘MWC13’ and/or ‘Mobile World’. The animated map shows the impact of … More Mobile World Congress 2013
The present year begins with a new article: “Not all paths lead to Rome: Analysing the network of sister cities” (arXiv) In this work with Andreas Kaltenbrunner, David Laniado and Yana Volkovich, we discuss the practice of sister city pairing. Specifically, we investigate structural properties of the resulting city and country networks and present rankings of the most … More IWSOS 2013: Not all paths lead to Rome – Analysing the network of sister cities
El año 2013 comenzó con, entre otras cosas, el lanzamiento del siguiente vídeo en Youtube El vídeo corresponde al Partido X también auto-denominado como Partido del Futuro. Desde entonces, ha suscitado un gran interés en la red (llegando a ser trending topic el día 2 de enero) y algunos medios han realizado crónicas al respecto: … More Los followers del Partido X también siguen al 15M
Now when 2013 starts, I finish my first full calendar year as a researcher at Barcelona Media. Consequently, I think it is an ideal moment to review the research conducted in 2012. This year has been strongly marked by the study of the communication dynamics on Twitter of the main political parties in the Spanish … More Review of 2012
Los principales partidos políticos que acuden a las elecciones catalanas han publicado más de un centenar de vídeos en la plataforma YouTube durante la presente campaña, según un estudio realizado en Barcelona Media, que cifra en más de medio millón el número de visionados que han sumado en su conjunto. El trabajo también destaca la … More 25N, la campaña también se disputa en YouTube
“A neutral point of view”, or the requirement that articles must present all significant viewpoints in a balanced manner, is one of Wikipedia’s three core principles. This approach is valued by many of its readers, especially those seeking impartial information at times of heated political debate. During the presidential election campaign in the United States, … More Wikipedia brings political opponents together
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