The working paper Investigating Transnational Communication on Social Media is now available on OSF. This paper was presented and discussed at the workshop titled Transnationalization of the Far-Right, held at The Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna, Italy, on Tuesday, April 8th, 2025. It marks the beginning of an effort to systematically […]
The Pearson’s r coefficient is the most popular metric of correlation. In the social sciences, researchers not attuned to the nuances of statistics may be tempted to use it every time they need to compute the correlation between variables, including time series. However, several aspects should be considered when applying this method to time series
I’m very pleased to present our work on coordinated behavior at a webinar organized by The European Broadcasting Union – EBU. This is the seventh edition of a series of monthly webinars about the veraAI project’s innovative research on AI-based fact-checking tools.
I recently had the pleasure of collaborating with Phillip Ayoub and Kristina Stoeckl on their influential work, “The Global Fight Against Lgbti Rights: How Transnational Conservative Networks Target Sexual and Gender Minorities” (NYU Press). This project involved creating data visualizations that captured the analytical and communicative intent of the authors, starting from relatively complex datasets.
The paper “CooRTweet: A Generalized R Software for Coordinated Network Detection” (Righetti & Balluff) describing our CooRTweet software, has been accepted for publication on Computational Communication Research. The paper is available open access at: https://doi.org/10.5117/CCR2025.1.7.RIGH.
In this work now published in Information, Communication & Society, we explored how social media is used to amplify moral conservative advocacy in the digital space. In the paper “Mainstreaming and Transnationalization of Anti-Gender Ideas through Social Media: The Case of CitizenGO”, along with an international group of talented young researchers, we examine how major
First publication of 2025 on a highly unique case: a coordinated attack by pro-Vietnam activists on a post from the Facebook page of the Chinese Embassy in Italy. The post, which is still accessible (link), incidentally featured a map that included the Spratly and Paracel Islands—disputed by Vietnam—as part of Chinese territory. Some of the
This week (July 1-July 5, 2024) I facilitated with Richard Rogers a project on coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook at the Digital Methods Summer School and Data Sprint 2024. In recent years, an increasing number of studies have focused on analyzing coordinated communication networks across social media platforms. These networks use coordination among various social
The paper Rethinking Veganism in the Digital Age. Innovating Methodology and Typology to Explore a Decade of Facebook Discourses is now published on Sociological Research Online, a journal of the British Sociological Association. The paper can be read on the journal website or, if you don’t have access, you can access and download the accepted
I have made available on GitHub the slides used in the Research Design and Data Collection course I taught at the University of Vienna, in the international master’s program in Communication Science (2023/2024).