I am currently based in the Department of Media and Communications of the University of Sydney (Australia).
Conferences and workshops
- Data and politics seminar, United States Studies Centre, Universtity of Sydney, Australia, 23 November 2018. Paper presented: Social capital, Internet capital and the recruitment networks of political movements: A theoretical and empirical approach
- Gale Digital Scholar Lab Roadshow, Universtity of Sydney, Australia, 3 October 2018. Paper presented: Racism in online interactions: Comparing survey data and social media data
- Digital Humanities Australasia 2018, University of Adelaide, Australia, 25-28 September 2018. Paper presented: Local participation and the Five Star Movement’s results in the 2018 General Election
- The Internet, Policy & Politics academic conference, University of Oxford, UK, 20-21 September 2018. Paper presented (Winner of Best paper prize): Internet-mediated recruitment networks of political movements: Empirical and theoretical approach
- Information for Digital Participation Symposium, University of Canberra, Australia, 18 July 2018. Paper presented: Local participation and the Five Star Movement’s results in the 2018 General Election
- 1st Australian Social Network Analysis Conference, Hawthorn, Australia, 16-17 November 2016. Poster presented: Political stability and the fragmentation of online publics in multilingual states.
- Internet, Politics, and Policy academic conference, University of Oxford, 22-23 September 2016. Paper presented: Political stability and the fragmentation of online publics in multilingual states.
- The 8th Pan-European Conference on the European Union, University of Trento, 15-18 June 2016. Paper presented: From Five Stars to ground –
A quantitative content analysis of Beppe Grillo’s blogposts.
- Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Canberra, 28-30 September 2015. Papers presented: Networks in the online mobilisation enterprise of Italy’s Five Star Movement and Between anti-elite populism and policy: A textual analysis of the relation between Beppe Grillo’s posts and his commenters.
- Protest Participation in Variable Communication Ecologies, Complesso Santa Chiara, Alghero, 24-26 June 2015. Papers presented: Users behaviour between blog, forum, Meetup and Facebook and Hybrid social and news media in Australian protest events: from #MarchinMarch to #BusttheBudget (with Ariadne Vromen).
- International Conference on Computational Social Science, Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, 11-8 June 2015. Poster presented: Networks in the online mobilisation enterprise of Italy’s Five Star Movement.
- Australasian Aid Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, 12-13 February 2015. Paper presented: Official development assistance vs People2People microlending: the case of Australia (with Guglielmo Briscese).
- Third Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Quantitative Political Science, University of Sydney, 5-6 December 2014. Paper presented: Heterogeneity and fragmentation in online political discussion : A comparative and within-case study analysis of the forums of Italy’s Five Star Movement and Germany’s Pirate Party.
- New forms of Digital Communication and Political Organisation, ANZSIG, University of Canberra, 9-10 October 2014. Papers presented: Heterogeneity and fragmentation in online political discussion : A comparative and within-case study analysis of the forums of Italy’s Five Star Movement and Germany’s Pirate Party and From #MarchinMarch to #BustTheBudget: Comparing social media ecologies of Australian protest events (with Ariadne Vromen).
- Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Sydney, 28 September – 1 October 2014. Paper presented: Prestige in online political talks: A case study of users’ behaviour within the media system of the Five Star Movement.
- Internet, Politics, and Policy academic conference, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 25-26 September 2014. Paper presented: Mapping online political talks through network analysis: A case study of the website of Italy’s Five Star Movement.
- Citizen Engagement and New Forms of Political Participation Workshop, ANZSIG, University of Canberra, 2-3 December 2013. Paper presented: Mapping online political forums through network analysis: A case study of the website of Italy’s Five Star Movement.
Visiting fellowship
