Peer-reviewed journals

European Political Science
2018
The electoral payoff of immigration flows for anti-immigration parties: The case of Italy’s Lega Nord

The electoral payoff of immigration flows for anti-immigration parties: The case of Italy’s Lega Nord

The aim of this article is to examine and quantify the relationship between regular immigration and voting for anti-immigration parties ...
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Information, Communication & Society
2017
Hybrid social and news media protest events: from #MarchinMarch to #BusttheBudget in Australia

Hybrid social and news media protest events: from #MarchinMarch to #BusttheBudget in Australia

Public protest events are now both social media and news media events. They are deeply entangled, with news media actors ...
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Political Studies
2016
Everyday Making through Facebook Engagement: Young Citizens’ Political Interactions in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States

Everyday Making through Facebook Engagement: Young Citizens’ Political Interactions in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States

The aim of this article is to examine and quantify the relationship between regular immigration and voting for anti-immigration parties ...
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Policy Studies
2015
Mapping online political talks through network analysis: a case study of the website of Italy's Five Star Movement

Mapping online political talks through network analysis: a case study of the website of Italy’s Five Star Movement

Understanding relations among online users involved in political discussions can help us understand similarities and differences with corresponding offline interactions ...
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Under review/In preparation

Bridging the void: Distress, participation and the electoral success of the Five Star Movement (2005-2018)

Bridging the void: Distress, participation and the electoral success of the Five Star Movement (2005-2018)

This paper uses geographically-defined social media from Meetup.com, electoral data and other demographics to analyse the M5S political enterprise. Causes, ...
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Social capital, Internet capital and the recruitment networks of political movements: A theoretical and empirical approach

Social capital, Internet capital and the recruitment networks of political movements: A theoretical and empirical approach

This paper presents an analysis of the recruitment network of Italy's Five Star Movement. A recruitment network with 8132 nodes ...
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Political stability and the fragmentation of online publics in multilingual states

Political stability and the fragmentation of online publics in multilingual states

In this paper I compare users' interactions on Facebook pages of parties and politicians in four different European multilingual countries: ...
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No Paradox Here? Testing the Nuclear Stability-Instability Paradox with Synthetic Control Method

No Paradox Here? Testing the Nuclear Stability-Instability Paradox with Synthetic Control Method

To overcome obstacles to causal inference in observational and qualitative studies, we use synthetic control method to assess whether acquisition ...
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