Dissemination

FOCUS GROUP

• 12 Febbraio 2024 Università G. d’Annunzio Chieti-Pescara (link)
• 1 Marzo 2024 Università di Salerno (link)
• 29 luglio 2024 Università della Calabria (link)

TALKS

• Latent attitudes and their correlations on Semantic Networks (Fontanella L., Sarra A., Cucco A., Giordano G., Misuraca M.), ARS’25 Tenth International Workshop on Social Network Analysis 30-31 October 2025 Naples (Italy)
• Identity, and counter-narratives in the digital space (Vassallo M., Cucco A., Maretti M.), ARS’25 Tenth International Workshop on Social Network Analysis 30-31 October 2025 Naples (Italy)
• Seminar Re-immaginare l’odio: il ruolo delle AI contro misoginia e razzismo online, La Notte Europea dei Ricercatori 2025, 26 September 2025 Chieti
• Beyond Algorithms: A Linguistic Approach to Online Hate Speech Detection (Monteleone M.), 11th Social Science Methodology Conference of RC33, 22-25 September 2025 Naples, Italy.
• Auto-narratives and digital self-representation from an anthropological perspective in countering online hate speech (Vassallo M., Cucco A.), 11th Social Science Methodology Conference of RC33, 22-25 September 2025 Naples, Italy.
• Modelling the human factor: Perspectivism and latent trait influence in annotated language data (Fontanella L., Chulvi B., and Cucco A.), ASA Conference 2025 UniRSM Data, Statistics and AI for the Well-Being of People and Organizations, 17-19 September 2025 San Marino
• Covering the online spectrum of opinion in social context: the benefit of network node sampling through an Italian case study (Cucco A., del Gobbo E., Fontanella L., Fontanella S. and Ippoliti L.), International Conference on Computational Science 2025 7-9 july 2025 Singapore
• Investigating the Structure of Racist and Xenophobic Discourse: A Causal Inference Approach (Misuraca M.), Sunbelt 2025 June 23-29 “Social Networks, Mechanisms, and Algorithms”
• Enhancing Sentiment Analysis Using Formal Linguistic Tools (Monteleone M.), Sunbelt 2025 June 23-29 “Social Networks, Mechanisms, and Algorithms”
• Exploring Semantic Networks to Assess Latent Attitudes Toward Migrants (Fontanella L., Sarra A., Cucco A., Giordano G., Misuraca M.), Sunbelt 2025 June 23-29 “Social Networks, Mechanisms, and Algorithms”
• Considerations and Challenges in Dealing with Online Italian Content Related to Social Issues: Constructing Datasets of Online Opinions for Human Annotation. (Cucco A., del Gobbo E., Fontanella S. and Ippoliti L.),  Sunbelt 2025 June 23-29 “Social Networks, Mechanisms, and Algorithms”
• Introduzione ai discorsi di odio (Hate Speech) (Lara Fontanella), Festival della Cultura e della Scienza “La Città delle Muse”, Chieti 7-8 Aprile 2025
• Misoginia, Razzismo e loro manifestazioni (Annalina Sarra), Festival della Cultura e della Scienza “La Città delle Muse”, Chieti 7-8 Aprile 2025 
• AI e identificazione automatica dei contenuti abusivi (Alex Cucco), Festival della Cultura e della Scienza “La Città delle Muse”, Chieti 7-8 Aprile 2025
• Challenges and approaches in creating a comprehensive dataset for annotating Italian online perspectives (Cucco A., del Gobbo E., Fontanella L.), Data Science & Social Research, Pescara 19-21 February 2025
• A two-fold strategy to analyse the hate speech against (im)migrants and other minorities on social media (Cossari A., Cozzucoli P., Misuraca M.), Data Science & Social Research, Pescara 19-21 February 2025
• Identifying network patterns of hate speech on social media (De Benedictis L., Giordano G., Vitale M.P), Data Science & Social Research, Pescara 19-21 February 2025
• Examining Attitudes on Immigrants: a dual-method approach based on IRT and Structural Topic Modelling (Sarra A., Misuraca M., Giordano G., Fontanella L.), Data Science & Social Research, Pescara 19-21 February 2025
• Investigating the immigration debate on newspapers (Fontanella L., Sarra A., del Gobbo E., Cucco A., Fontanella S.), DSSR2024 Data Science & Social Research, 4th International Conference, Naples, 25-27 March 2024, Naples
• Exploring Anti-Migrant Rhetoric on Italian Social Media (Fontanella L., Sarra A., del Gobbo E., Cucco A., Fontanella S.), SDS2024 Statistics and Data Science, 11-12 April 2024, Palermo.
• Networks of Opinions: Mapping Ideological Positions in Immigration Reporting: A statistical analysis of media language (Cucco A., del Gobbo E., Fontanella L., Fontanella S., Sarra A.), INSNA – Sunbelt Conference 2024, Edinburgh, 24-30 June, 2024.
• Exploring Cyber-Risk Perception with Text Mining and Social Network Analysis (Fraudatario M. C., Giordano G.), INSNA – Sunbelt Conference 2024, Edinburgh, 24-30 June, 2024.
• Explainable data science for unexplainable human behaviours Tracing online racism and xenophobia. (Fontanella, G. Giordano and M. Misuraca), Rencontres de la Société Francophone de Classification Meeting of the French-Speaking Classification Society, 11-13 September, 2024.
• From hermeneutics to topic modeling: acquiring knowledge from texts in the Chat_GPT era, (Misuraca M.), Workshop at JM AI-CODED, University of Napoli L’Orientale

PUBLICATIONS

• Cucco A., Fontanella L., Sarra A., and Fontanella S., Learning Ontologies of Online Abusive Contents: Seeded LDA and Graph-Based Semantic Structuring of Offensive Anti-migrant Narratives in Italian [Submitted]
• Cucco, A., Gobbo, E., Fontanella, L., Fontanella, S., Ippoliti, L.: Covering the on-line spectrum of opinion in social context: The benefit of network node sampling through an italian case study. In: Paszynski, M., Barnard, A.S., Zhang, Y.J. (eds.) Computational Science – ICCS 2025 Workshops, pp. 60–67. Springer, Cham (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-97554-7 5, Print ISBN: 978-3-031-97553-0, Online ISBN: 978-3-031-97554-7
• Fontanella L., Sarra A., del Gobbo E., Cucco A., Fontanella S. (2024) Exploring Anti-Migrant Rhetoric on Italian Social Media Proceedings of the Statistics and Data Science 2024 Conference New perspectives on Statistics and Data Science. Palermo: Università degli Studi di Palermo (https://unipapress.com/book/proceedings-of-the-statistics-and-data-science-2024-conference/ )