Posts Tagged ‘Dr. Paola Tubaro’
by Antonio A. Casilli and Paola Tubaro During the last week several voices of the international blogosphere have been discussing our study on the impact of social media censorship during the August 2011 UK Riots. As you know if you have been reading our blogs, our work was based on computational methods and aimed at […]
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Tags: 2011 UK riots, Civil violence, Dr Antonio A. Casilli, Dr. Paola Tubaro, Public policy analysis, Quantitative methods, Social science data, social theory, Sociology, Statistical modeling
Yesterday, the University of Greenwich has published on its website a Press Release on the research about UK riots I have been doing with Antonio A. Casilli: Others have commented on our research on how censorship may change the pattern of violence. In particular, so far: Numerama (18th August 2011, France), Une étude conclut que la censure […]
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Tags: 2011 UK riots, Agent-based models, Civil violence, Dr. Paola Tubaro, Public policy analysis, Social simulation, social theory, Sociology, Web, Web-based social networks
Is a social media-fuelled uprising the worst case scenario? Elements for a sociology of UK riots
By Antonio A. Casilli & Paola Tubaro This is the first of a series of joint posts of Bodyspacesociety + Paola Tubaro’s Blog. You are kindly invited to visit both websites, featuring plenty of interesting stuff. Why social media bring democracy to developing countries and anarchy to rich ones? O sublime hypocrisy of European mainstream […]
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Tags: 2011 London riots, 2011 UK riots, Agent-based models, Civil violence, Dr Antonio A. Casilli, Dr. Paola Tubaro, Public policy analysis, Social simulation, social theory, Sociology, Web, Web-based social networks
First post
Hello world! This is my first post. I am a lecturer in economic sociology at the University of Greenwich, London, UK, and I am interested in social networks, agent-based models, and the philosophy of economics and the social sciences. This blog will be a place to share my interests.
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