Program

Invited Speaker

Alexandre Bovet

Alexandre Bovet is an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Network Science at the University of Zurich and a member of the Digital Society Initiative. He has recently published datasets and research on the social media platforms Telegram, BlueSky and Menéame and curated the collection "Information Diffusion in Understudied Datasets" hosted at Plos One. Find more information on his personal website.

HourActivity
9:00 - 9:10Opening and Welcome
9.10 - 9.50Invited Talk (30 minutes + question time)
9.50 - 10.30Contributed Talks 1
10.30 - 11.00Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:40Contributed Talks 2
11.45 - 12.25Contributed Talks 3
12:25 - 12:30Closing Remarks

Talk Schedule

First Session: 9:50–10:30

SpeakerTitle
Emanuele CozzoStudying Opinion Dynamics in Technopolitical Deliberation: The Case of (Meta)Decidim
Alessia GaldemannClimate Change Discourse on TikTok
Fernando Diaz DiazModelling echo chamber effects in signed networks

Second Session: 11:00–11:40

SpeakerTitle
Miroslav MirchevMisinformation spreading through chain emails
Yuan ZhangMore than ‘Left and Right’: Revealing Multilevel Online Political Selective Exposure
Andrea FaillaBluesky Social Dataset: A High-Coverage Resource for Computational Social Science Research

Third Session: 11:45–12:25

SpeakerTitle
Niccolò di MarcoDecoding Musical Evolution Through Network Science
Mihaly HanicsLarge painter network and dataset creation using location data as connections, collected using the Wikidata SparQL API
Beatrice GentileUnderstanding the dynamic of cohesive violent minorities: a preliminary analysis of the Incel.is community