This Saturday we'll talk a bit about algorithms as part of the Milano Digital Week (in italiano). Come and say hi!

Finally out!! Happy to have contributed with an entry on "Meme Politics" with my one and only Ilir Rama :)

I am thrilled to share that, after an intense work, the paper "What is a meme, technically speaking?", co-authored by Richard Rogers and yours truly, is out on Information, Communication & Society. dx.doi.org/10.1080/136911…

Come and join us this summer on Lake Como for some digital methods under the sun*! * Availability of sunlight subject to variation

Absolutely based

"Understanding Digital Societies", the seminar series curated by mauro barisione & I, organized as part of the PhD in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research NASP @lastatale Università di Torino, is finally here! Starts this week, full programme below. Come along if you're in Milan!

👾 Move fast and break things 👾 The Italian DPA has already addressed our complaint. 💫 What will the tech giant reply to the preliminary inquiries? PH has 20 days to answer. garanteprivacy.it/home/docweb/-/…

🍪 Tech giant gets spanked for not asking consent, then tries to clean up the mess with tiny cookie banner 🍪 An admission of guilt for not having complied for all these years. What’s wrong with this new cookie banner? Read our statement -> stopdataporn.org/news/07-20-23/

With the (for now) benevolent weather of Lake Como, we kick off the day's first lesson with Ilir Rama (Ilir Rama) on "Epistemology and Techniques of Tracking Methods." 📚 Exciting times ahead! #DMCS23 #ConsumerCult

The third day of #DMCS23 is starting, come and join us for more cringe memes (and some Digital methods as well) #consumercult

The second day starts with Network Analysis seminar by Prof. Guido Anselmi (Guido Anselmi). Nodes, edges and degrees will guide us in exploring social relationships, communication patterns, & info flow in the digital landscape - with a focus on the consumer culture #DMCS23

The second highlight of the day: Digital Content Analysis with Prof. Alessandro Gandini (Alessandro Gandini). Discovering imaginaries and narratives of consumer culture #DMCS23 #ConsumerCult

The visual dream team Laura Bruschi Giulia Giorgi at it again

It's time for the final seminar with Giulia Giorgi and Alessandro Gandini on Cross-Platform Analysis and Data Visualization. But that's not all! This afternoon, we'll continue with our group projects, and before that, the keynote by Sophie Bishop! #DMCS23

Fantastic keynote lecture from Sophie Bishop yesterday at #DMCS23. Sophie shared creative strategies to find ways in to studying proprietary platforms, giving me so much to reflect on for my own research. #digitalmethods #consumerstudies Digital Methods for Consumer Studies School #DMCS

Mentre ripulite le vostre to-do-list prima delle ferie, segnatevi questo: il seminario finale del progetto Streaming Culture, guidato da Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca marianna d'ovidio con Università degli Studi di Milano Dip SPS - Unimi cheFare Fondazione Cariplo. Keynote @jboy & @j_uitermark! Ci vediamo il 20/9 in Bicocca💥

On Tuesday 3 October we'll have the privilege to host Thomas Poell at Dip SPS - Unimi Università degli Studi di Milano for a research seminar. His (& Dr. Brooke Erin Duffy & @nieborg.bsky.social) work on platforms and cultural production has become a pivotal reference in the scholarship on platformization. Come by!

🔎How do media outlets shape their narratives around the #GazaWar? Our latest study analyzes 18,000 Facebook posts to uncover differences between Al Jazeera, Fox News, NYT & more. 📊🌍 #MediaAnalysis #GazaWar #DigitalResearch pomlab.unimi.it/wp-content/upl…