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 UAB: Social Network Analysis
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 Data Visualization: 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 Not all paths lead to Rome: Analysing the network of sister cities
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
Hoy se ha conocido el veredicto parcial en la demanda de Oracle a Google por la utilización del lenguaje de programación Java en la implementación de su sistema operativo móvil y libre Android. El jurado ha determinado que Google ha infringido el uso de las herramientas y APIs propiedad de Oracle, sin embargo, no ha … More Oracle, Google y Stallman
Wikipedia is the sixth most visited website in the world. Its articles written collaboratively represent the primary source of information on many topics for millions of people. In fact, they can be considered a mirror of the global collective memory. In Barcelona Media we have analyzed biographies of people on Wikipedia using the links between … More A study of the links in the Wikipedia that made history
Después del gran éxito de las Jornadas “Las Transformaciones de la Sociedad Civil y la Política en la era de Internet. Movimientos, Cambio Social y Comunicación”, el grupo “Información, Tecnología y Sociedad” de Barcelona Media ha realizado un pequeño análisis y unas visualizaciones de lo que pasó en Twitter durante el evento. La información se … More Estructura de las conversaciones digitales de las Jornadas “Movimientos, Cambio Social y Comunicación”
Pablo Aragón 