This afternoon I visited the Big Bang Data exhibition at the Somerset House (London). The exhibition explores the issues surrounding the datafication of our world through the work of artists, designers, journalists and visionaries. As the data explosion accelerates, Big Bang Data asks if we really understand our relationship with data, and explores the meaning and … More Big Bang Data – London
The latest deliverable of D-CENT project has been released: D2.3 Results of the data analysis. The document contains the results of the analysis of digital data related to Barcelona Comú, an emerging grassroots movement-party that won the 2015 Barcelona City Council election. In the first part of this report we detail some of the technopolitical processes involved in developing Barcelona … More D-CENT: Results of the data analysis
Yesterday I participated in the 4th Databeers event held at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. My talk was based on our latest research article for the D-CENT project: “When a Movement Becomes a Party: The 2015 Barcelona City Council Election” that examines the structural properties of the new forms of political organization that emerged from the 15M … More 4th Databeers BCN
Also this week, the article “Interactions of Cultures and Top People of Wikipedia from Ranking of 24 Language Editions” by my colleagues Young-Ho Eom, David Laniado, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Sebastiano Vigna, Dima L. Shepelyansky and me will be presented in Netsci 2015, the flagship conference on Complex Networks promoted by the NetSci Society. In this talk, I will … More International School and Conference on Network Science 2015
Today, I’m participating as as speaker at the NetSci Backstage satellite with the presentation “The missing link between Network Science and the Social Media Monitoring industry“. The aim of this contributed talk is to suggest that the strength of the link between Network Science and the Social Media Monitoring industry is crucial for the social comprehension of social … More NetSci Backstage satellite
Yesterday, I attended to the Ouishare research workshop held at the ESCP Europe Paris Campus. This workshop was devised to discuss practices, theories and methods for the study of the collaborative (or sharing or peer) economy. Over the day, thirty researchers from across Europe and beyond had the opportunity to share our research interests. Collaboratively, we also map … More Ouishare Research Workshop
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
Today, we have held the 1st Year Review Meeting of the project FP7-ICT-D-CENT in Brussels. The objectives of the review were to establish: the degree of fulfillment of the project work plan for the relevant period and of the related deliverables; the continued relevance of the objectives and breakthrough potential with respect to the scientific … More D-CENT: First Review Meeting
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
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
Pablo Aragón 