D-CENT: Network democracy for a better city

April 27, 2015

Source: http://dcentproject.eu/2015/04/d-cent-event-network-democracy-for-a-better-city/ Exciting news! We have set the date and preliminary agenda for the next D-CENT event. On May 5th, we will be hosting a conference in Barcelona which dives into Network democracy for a better city. Our plan is to inspire a great number of high-level policy makers, academics, activists, civic society organisations, and hackers to debate the … More D-CENT: Network democracy for a better city

Interactions of Cultures and Top People of Wikipedia from Ranking of 24 Language Editions

March 5, 2015

This week, our latest article with Young-Ho Eom, David Laniado, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Sebastiano Vigna & Dima L. Shepelyansky has been published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE (full article here). In this paper, we apply methods of Markov chains and Google matrix on 24 editions of Wikipedia that cover languages which played an important role in human … More Interactions of Cultures and Top People of Wikipedia from Ranking of 24 Language Editions

D-CENT: Technical Design of Open Social Web for Crowdsourced Democracy

December 5, 2014

The latest deliverable of D-CENT project has been released: D4.3 Technical Design of Open Social Web for Crowdsourced Democracy. The file contains the technical architecture of the D-CENT nodes, each with its own social data store, in order to allow D-CENT to be used for the direct democratic decision-making pilots. Source: http://dcentproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/D4.3-final.pdf Disclaimer: This report is currently awaiting approval … More D-CENT: Technical Design of Open Social Web for Crowdsourced Democracy

International Conference on Social Informatics 2014

November 13, 2014

Also this week, the article “Who are my Audiences? A Study of the Evolution of Target Audiences in Microblogs” by my colleagues Ruth García-Gavilanes, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Diego Sáez-Trumper, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, David Laniado and me will be presented in the 6th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2014). In this paper, we study the evolution of Twitter users across groups between 2011 … More International Conference on Social Informatics 2014

City Labs Workshop

November 10, 2014

This week, the article “DaTactic, Data with Tactics: Description and evaluation of a new format of online campaigning for NGOs“, written by Saya Sauliere, Rebeca Díez Escudero, Alberto Abellán and me, will be presented at City Labs Workshop – SocInfo 2014. According to the organizing committee, the workshop is devised to bring together researchers and … More City Labs Workshop

Co-keywords graph from TV3 news in 2013

October 24, 2014

Last evening, I attend, with my collegues David Laniado and Ariadna M. Fernández, the Urbanbeers @_BIG BANG DATA (II edition) hosted by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. When we arrived, I discovered that one of my latest graph visualizations was added to the BIG BANG DATA exhibition: Title Red de co-ocurrencias de palabras claves en … More Co-keywords graph from TV3 news in 2013

Spanish Indignados and the evolution of the 15M movement on Twitter: towards networked para-institutions

August 25, 2014

Source: http://ictlogy.net/20140824-new-paper-spanish-indignados-and-the-evolution-of-the-15m-movement-on-twitter-towards-networked-para-institutions/ My colleagues Ismael Peña-López, Mariluz Congosto and I just got a paper published. It is the final, improved version of a research that had already been presented thus: Peña-López, I., Congosto, M. & Aragón, P. (2013). “Spanish Indignados and the evolution of 15M: towards networked para-institutions”. In Balcells, J., Cerrillo i Martínez, A., Peguera, … More Spanish Indignados and the evolution of the 15M movement on Twitter: towards networked para-institutions

#DaTactic2 workshop

May 23, 2014

Yesterday, I participated in the #DaTactic2 workshop which took place simultaneously in Barcelona (Col·legi de Periodistes de Catalunya) and Madrid. The workshop was an initiative launched to boost voter awareness in upcoming EU Election due to the expected abstention caused by the disaffection towards European institutions. To this purpose, the event gathered professionals from diverse fields such as social media, data journalism and programming. … More #DaTactic2 workshop