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SOCIETY
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25-26 NOVEMBER 2020
UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO
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EDIT BY GIUSEPPE MASULLO
SCIENTIFIC COORDINATOR OF
INTERNATIONAL LAB FOR
INNOVATIVE SOCIAL RESEARCH (ILIS)
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Abstracts
Second International Conference
Research Methods in the Digital Society
Challenges and opportunities
25-26 November 2020,
University of Salerno
Edit by Giuseppe Masullo
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Innovative Social Research,
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(In Alphabetical Order by Author's Family name)
Table of contents
Preface
Organizing Committee
Conference Schedule
Learning algorithms of sentiment analysis. A comparative approach
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to improve data goodness
Acampa S., De Falco C. C. & Trezza D., University of Naples, Federico
II (Italy)
What happens when changes the way to “Follow the medium”? A
2.
reflection about the role of the researcher and emerging perspectives
in the post-API era
Acampa S., Padricelli G. M. & Sorrentino R., University of Naples,
Federico II (Italy)
Digital dark tourism during COVID-19 pandemic: a digital
3.
ethnography of Italian red zones’ Facebook pages
Addeo F., University of Salerno (Italy); Padricelli G. M. & Punziano G.,
University of Naples, Federico II (Italy)
To be #celts today: features of a neo-pagan cult in the social media
4.
Amatruda F., University of Salerno (Italy)
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An exploratory study on the spread of fake news on Twitter:
protection vs. amplification
Amendola A., Castellano S., Giordano G. & Vitale M. P., University of
Salerno (Italy)
The evolution of Online Survey: reflections on the cross-national
probability-based online panels
Bottoni G., City University of London (UK) & Addeo F., University of
Salerno (Italy)
Criticalities and advantages of the use of Artificial Intelligence in
research
Camargo Molano J. – International Telematic University Uninettuno
(Italy) & Cavalaglio Camargo Molano J. – University of Modena and
Reggio Emilia (Italy)
Social Research on Wattpad. An example of small data research
Cantale C., University of Catania (Italy)
Subject expert in the COVID era
Carleo M., University of Salerno (Italy)
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Social Identity Seeking and Sharing as a Creative Activity of Art
Consumers
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Jitka Cirklová, University of Finance and Administration Estonskà (CZR)
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The spatial dimension in social media analysis: theoretical and
methodological characteristics
Crescentini N., De Falco C. C. & Ferracci M. – University of Naples,
Federico II (Italy)
Digital Ethnography. A systematic literature review
Delli Paoli A., Addeo F. & D’Auria V. - University of Salerno (Italy)
Fake news pandemic. Detecting bad information by supervised
learning
Di Lisio M. & Trezza D. – University of Naples, Federico II (Italy)
Methodological directions for the study of memes
Giorgi G., NASP (University of Milan / University of Turin)
Narrative and life stories: from the machine to the person
Grassi E., University of Rome, Roma Tre (Italy)
Innovative digital methodologies for the historical research of the
history of Europe: The Association of European Historians as a case
study
Laruffa A., University of Rome, La Sapienza (Italy)
How strartuppers capitalize financial, resources through online and
offline narratives
Luise V. & Lodetti P., University of Milan (Italy)
National differences and gender stereotypes in Days of Empire
Maiello G., University of Finance and Administration, Prague (Czech
Republic)
The Italian Twitterphere in COVID-19 time: a topic analysis
Maretti M., Russo V., Fontanella L. & Del Gobbo E., University of
Chieti-Pescara, Gabriele D’Annunzio (Italy)
Innovative research methods for tacking the COVID-19 online
disinformation: combing research and regulation in the platform
society
Marrazzo F., Authority for Communications Guarantees, AGCOM (Italy)
@ConfesionesMachistas: social networks, participatory online
research and new masculinities
Martinez J.G., Independent Researcher, Spain
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Gender models and sexual scripts of T people on online dating Apps:
a netnographyc study
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Masullo G. & Coppola M., University of Salerno (Italy)
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Dear (digital) diary…evaluating the audio-diary technique as a
research method in the social sciences
Moretti V., University of Bologna (Italy)
Tricked into supporting: a case study on computational propaganda
persuasion strategies
Nerino V., University of Trento (Italy)
The perception of the community and intimacy building in the artfan relationship. A self-netnography on Instagram feeds, stories and
direct in the Covid-19 lockdown period
Pozzi S., Independent Researcher (Italy)
Case studies and digital platforms: methodological directions from
reddit
Rama I., University of Milan (Italy)
Being a pirate: how Pastafarian activism is built on the social media
Ranzato J., University of Rome, La Sapienza (Italy)
Back to practices. Auto-ethnography as a practice of access to data
and algorithms
Risi E., IULM University of Milan (Italy); Bonini T., University of Siena
(Italy) & Pronzato R., IULM University of Milan (Italy)
Diaries from isolation
Sallusto Palmiero M., Tofani R. & Parola J., University of Naples,
Federico II (Italy)
Culture and networks in online social fields. Studying the duality of
culture and practice in social network sites through Bourdieu’s
theory and social network analysis
Serino M., University of Naples Federico II (Italy)
The political communication of Italia Viva on Instagram: from its
formation to the COVID-19 emergency
Stravolo A. & Luongo A., University of Naples, Federico II (Italy)
Delphi mix methods for future scenarios during social distancing
Tintori A., National Research Council (CNR) & Ciancimino G., Institute
for Research on Population and Social Policies (IRPPS)
Editorial Committee
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PREFACE
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Innovation in social research and new methodological
challenges: International Lab for innovative Social
Research
ILIS, set up within the Department of Human Sciences, Philosophy and
Education, is proposed as an interdisciplinary study and research laboratory
on issues of social interest. The main objective is to stimulate theoretical
and methodological reflection as well as the empirical study on the new
scenarios of social research: from theoretical challenges facing new
problems and dilemmas to new methodological horizons for understanding
them.
The mission of ILIS is to promote theoretical, epistemological, and
methodological advances in the field of social sciences through constant
dialogue with expert scholars both nationally and internationally.
The field of action of ILIS focuses on social processes ranging from the
analysis of educational, migratory, identity and cultural processes, to
gender and generational perspectives, to health with attention to
methodology and techniques for social research. The ultimate goal is to
offer an integrated research and knowledge system capable of orienting
scientific actions towards an innovative theoretical and empirical
knowledge of the transformation processes of our societies through
innovative research theories and practices.
From a scientific point of view, ILIS aims to combine the understanding
of contemporary social processes with recent developments in the
methodology and techniques of social research that have revolutionized
some traditional approaches and introduced alternative practices of
collecting, analysing and representing information ( as in the case of online
research approaches and big data analysis).
Among the main activities promoted by ILIS, a key role is played by the
scientific dissemination of innovative social research theories and practices
through the promotion of meeting and training opportunities such as lectio
magistralis, seminars, workshops, visiting chances, conferences.
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Of particular importance is the international symposium that ILIS
promotes every year, to bring together researchers inside and outside the
network to take stock of a new theoretical, methodological and
epistemological trend that is becoming established in the contemporary
social sciences, thus providing an opportunity to inaugurate a path of
reflection that continues (in the form of seminars, workshops, lectures)
throughout the academic year.
Since its inception in 2019, the ILIS network has launched several
initiatives, including its first International Conference, which saw the
participation of numerous Italian and foreign scholars on the theme of
Ethnography and Netnography.
The conference, which took place at the University of Salerno on 26 th
and 27th November 2019, saw the participation of many researchers of the
network on emerging issues of Ethnographic and Netnographic research:
from the theoretical and epistemological approach of these studies to the
methodological and technical aspects about the different techniques that
can be used with these approaches to the discussion of ethical dilemmas
and their application in the sociological and pedagogical field1.
The results of this conference – and the other occasions promoted by
ILIS throughout 2019 – have been included in a recent volume edited by
Giuseppe Masullo, Felice Addeo, and Angela Delli Paoli entitled:
Ethnography and Netnography. Theoretical reflections, methodological
challenges and research experiences, Loffredo editore, Nuova serie2.
The interest and stimuli that emerged during the previous Conference, in
particular towards the Netnographic approach, together with the inclusion
of new members to the network (such as the happy addition of Dr Gabriella
Punziano) led me and my colleagues – Addeo and Delli Paoli – to insist on
this path also for the second Conference, and to broaden our attention in
focusing on the new methods of social research applied to the themes and
areas proposed by the digital society.
1
For details of the initiative, please refer to the specific section on the ILIS website:
http://www.labh.it/ilis/conferenze-internazionali/1st-international-conference-ilis/
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To view the volume, and the topics covered, please refer to the specific section of the
publications on the ILIS website: http://www.labh.it/ilis/pubblicazioni/
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There is no way to object that the traditional social research methods
that governed the study of rooted societies are losing ground in favour of
innovative, sometimes extemporaneous, methodological proposals. On the
one hand, scholars and professionals transposed the classical social
research method to be implemented online; on the other hand, the growing
pervasiveness of the digital in our lives required the development of
methods more suitable to address the challenges of studying the digital
society.
In this latter sense, digital methods imply embracing the natural logic of
online communication affordances in gathering, ordering, and analysing
data—as with tags, links, or hashtags. Methodological reflections about
digital and digitized methods are impervious in our scientific community
and applications to the most disparate objects are now the subject of
numerous publications. We have witnessed the succession of web methods,
virtual methods, digital methods, and many other definitions of what
should be doing social research “with” and “on” the Web. However, there
is still no agreement on a shared definition of what it means and how to
implement the empirical study of the digital society; there are not
paradigmatic definitions so solid as to redefine the field.
This apparent methodological Babylonia has found a possible solution
in the application of the mixed methods approach. The hybridization of the
methods ended up being reflected also in the desire to make the methods
more and more disconnected from the disciplines and approaches. The
search for integration, the mix that solves every cognitive and research
problem, the all-embracing openness that challenges theories and broad
visions within which social research fits today, are only a few of the
elements that are pushing social research methods in unpredictable
directions. But where will this ambition lead us? How much have we
reflected on this fast spread? How much did we metabolize the change of a
method or how only we simply idealized it in a different context? And how
much all this becomes truly appropriate in the study of contemporary
phenomena? These, as well as a flood of other questions, can arise if only
we stop for a moment to reflect on what the social and human disciplines
are called to do today.
In this second conference, to be held on November 25 th and 26th,
entitled: Research Methods in the Digital Society: challenges and
opportunities (curated by Felice Addeo, Angela Delli Paoli, Gabriella
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Punziano and myself), we would like to bring together researchers from
different disciplines who engage in wide forms of reflection on the future
of the research methods in the study of the digital society in its broadest
sense. The overall aim is not only to start a debate on the different strands
of methods most affected by change but above all to develop a broader
theoretical reflection on the future of social research in its challenge to
always be fitting, suitable, adaptable and pertinent to the society to be
studied.
The present volume, introduced through this short foreword, contains
the abstracts of the papers selected by the Scientific Committee 3 from
among the many received following the Call for Paper. We did not expect
such enthusiasm, and yet it confirms our first intuition – which led to the
creation of ILIS – that is, to respond to the need (often unexpressed by the
sociological scientific community) to expand the spaces for discussion on
the new tools of social research, a need felt in particular by young
researchers, who again stand out as the main interpreters and pioneers of
these methodological horizons.
The contributions proposed here, without any restriction in terms of
topics, subjects, objects, or methodological approaches, are in the following
areas:
3 I would like to name them all here, (extending to the organizational secretariat,
coordinated by Dr. Marianna Coppola) in thanking them for their valuable contribution to
this initiative: Enrica Amaturo (University of Naples, Federico II); Alfonso Amendola
(University of Salerno); Nick Boston (NYU New York University); Davide Bennato
(University of Catania); Alessandro Caliandro (University of Bath); Costantino Cipolla
(University of Bologna); Roberto Cipriani (University of Rome, Roma Tre); Fabio
Corbisiero (University of Naples, Federico II); Francesca De Chiara (Bruno’s Kessler
Foundation); Maria Paola Faggiano (University of Rome, La Sapienza); Floriana Falcinelli
(University of Perugia); Vulca Fidolini (University of Strasbourg); Mihaela Gavrila
(University of Rome, La Sapienza); Brian Gilley (University of Bloomington-Indiana);
Giuseppe Giordano (Univerisity of Salerno); Susanne Halford (University of Bristol);
Francesca Romana Lenzi (University of Rome, Foro Italico); Giuseppe Maiello (University
of Prague); Emiliana Mangone (University of Salerno); Paolo Montesperelli (University of
Rome La Sapienza); Alessandro Porrovecchio (University of littoral Côte d'Opale);
Massimo Ragnedda (Northumbria University of Newcastle); Cirus Rinaldi (University of
Palermo); Jonah Steinberg (University of Vermont); Lucia Velotti (The City University of
New York); Zuzana Virglerova (Bata University); Maria Prosperina Vitale (University of
Salerno).
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Teorethical, epistemological and ontological reflections about the
digital research methods;
Innovative methods to collect, analyse and interpret data;
Ethnography goes online: theory, methods and research;
The rebirth of Content Analysis in the Digital Age;
The contribution of the Mixed Methods to the Online Social
Research;
The new imprint of the Social Network Analysis in the Net
Scenario.
The best contributions of the Conference will be the opportunity to
realize two important editorial projects (of which we will give further news
during the conference), which are a special issue of the Italian Sociological
Review (edited by Felice Addeo and Giuseppe Masullo) and a collective
volume for a prestigious Italian or foreign series (edited by Angela Delli
Paoli and Gabriella Punziano).
We hope that the discussion engendered by this conference will
contribute to animate a debate that on these issues is still in progress. The
discussion will take place in streaming (because of the emergency that we
are experiencing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic) but in the future it
will hopefully occur face-to-face again, aware that an International
Convention like the one we are proposing proves to be productive for
scientific purposes not only through the formal sessions of the planned
panels but also through all those occasions of informal meetings (coffee
breaks, dinners, etc.) in which researchers often exchange ideas, proposals,
for future scientific and research initiatives in a more free and relaxed way.
This is perhaps the aspect that we miss the most as a young scientific
community that loves to relate with other academic realities, promoting not
only theoretical and methodological knowledge but also the formation of
lasting and continuous human and academic ties with the partners of the
ILIS network.
Prof. Giuseppe Masullo (Scientific Coordinator of the International Lab for
Innovative Social Research)
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Executive Board:
Giuseppe Masullo – Head of the International Lab for
Innovative Social Research (ILIS)
–
University of Salerno (Italy); Felice
Addeo – University of Salerno (Italy);
Angela Delli Paoli – University of Salerno (Italy);
Gabriella Punziano – University of Naples, Federico II (Italy).
Scientific Committee:
Enrica Amaturo (University of Naples, Federico II);
Alfonso Amendola (University of Salerno); Nick Boston (NYU New York
University); Davide Bennato ( University of Catania); Alessandro Caliandro
(University of Pavia); Costantino Cipolla (University of Bologna); Roberto
Cipriani (University of Rome, Roma Tre); Fabio Corbisiero (University of
Naples, Federico II); Francesca De Chiara (Bruno s Kessler Foundation);
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Maria Paola Faggiano (University of Rome, La Sapienza); Floriana
Falcinelli (University of Perugia); Vulca Fidolini (University of
Strasbourg); Mihaela Gavrila (University of Rome, La Sapienza);
Brian
Gilley
(University
of
Bloomington-Indiana);
Giuseppe
Giordano (Univerisity of Salerno); Susanne Halford (University of
Bristol); Francesca Romana Lenzi (University of Rome, Foro
Italico);
Giuseppe
Maiello
(University
of
Prague);
Emiliana
Mangone (University of Salerno); Paolo Montesperelli (University
of Rome La Sapienza); Alessandro Porrovecchio (University of
littoral C ô te d'Opale); Massimo Ragnedda (Northumbria University
of Newcastle); Cirus Rinaldi (University of Palermo); Sergio
Splendore (Università degli Studi di Milano); Jonah Steinberg
(University of Vermont); Lucia Velotti (The City University of New York);
Zuzana Virglerova (Bata University); Maria Prosperina Vitale (University
of Salerno).
Organizing Secretary:
Marianna Coppola – University of Salerno (Italy);
Francesca Ianniello – University of Salerno (Italy);
Miriam Matteo – University of Salerno, (Italy);
Immacolata Senatore – University of Salerno (Italy).
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| 10.30 A M – 1.00 PM
Institutional greetings:
Giuseppe Masullo – Head of the International Lab for Innovative Social Research (ILIS) –
University of Salerno (Italy)
Maurizio Sibilio – Head of the Department of Humanities, Philosophy and
Education (DISUFF) – University of Salerno (Italy)
Virgilio D’Antonio – Head of the Department of Political Sciences and
Communication (DISPC) – University of Salerno (Italy)
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From the surplus of mixed methods to eclectic integration
Costantino Cipolla – University of Bologna (Italy)
Sociology for the Digital Age: directions for methods and practice
Susanne Halford – University of Bristol (UK)
Critical optimism: a methodological posture to shape the future of
digital social research
Enrica Amaturo – University of Naples (Italy)
Methodological reflections on the concept and use of Big Data
Sonia Stefanizzi – University of Milan, Bicocca (Italy)
Telling online: the sociality that changes the research
Rita Bichi – University of Milan, Cattolica (Italy);
Digital society and research methods in a changing world
Giovanni Boccia Artieri – University of Urbino (Italy)
Why are digital methods still now where journalism studies are? An epistemology of
journalism as a discorsive method
Sergio Splendore - University of Milan (Italy)
| 01:00 - 03:00 LUNCH BREAK
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SECOND SESSION
| 3. 00 PM – 4. 30 PM
Theoretical, epistemological, and ontological reflections about the
digital research methods
Chair: Giuseppe Masullo – Head of the International Lab for Innovative Social
Research (ILIS) – University of Salerno (Italy)
Keynote speaker: Davide Bennato – University of Catania (Italy)
Discussant: Massimo Ragnedda – Northumbria University of Newcastle (UK)
Digital traces and social analysis. A way to put together quantitative approach,
interpretive methods and computational tools
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The spatial dimension in social media analysis: theoretical and methodological
characteristics
Noemi Crescentini, Ciro Clemente De Falco, Marco Farracci – University of Naples,
Federico II (Italy)
Criticalities and advantages of the use of Artificial Intelligence in research
Jessica Camargo Molano – International Telematic University Uninettuno (Italy),
Jacopo Cavalaglio Camargo Molano – University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy)
Narrative and life stories: from the machine to the person
Edmondo Grassi – University of Rome, Roma Tre (Italy)
What happens when changes the way to “Follow the medium”? A reflection about
the role of the researcherand emerging perspectives
in the post-API era
Suania Acampa, Giuseppe Michele Padricelli, Rosa Sorrentino - University of
Naples, Federico II (Italy)
Social Identity Seeking and Sharing as a Creative Activity of Art Consumers
Jitka Cirklová - University of Finance and Administration Estonskà (CZR)
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THIRD SESSION
| 4. 30 PM – 6. 30 PM
Innovative methods and tools to collect, analyse and interpret data
Chair: Biagio Aragona – University of Naples, Federico II (Italy)
Discussant: Emiliana Mangone – University of Salerno (Italy)
Keynote speaker: Alessandro Caliandro – (UK)
Repruposing ditigal methods in a post – API environment
*****
Innovative digital methodologies for the historical research of the
history of Europe: The Association of European Historians as a case study
Alessandro Laruffa – University of Rome, La Sapienza (Italy)
Dear (digital) diary…evaluating the audio-diary technique as a research
method in the social sciences
Veronica Moretti – University of Bologna (Italy)
Innovative research methods for tacking the COVID-19 online
disinformation: combing research and regulation in the platform society
Francesco Marrazzo – Authority for Communications Guarantees, AGCOM (Italy)
Fake news pandemic. Detecting bad information by supervised learning
Miriam Di Lisio, Domenico Trezza – University of Naples, Federico II (Italy)
Learning algorithms of sentiment analysis. A comparative approach to
improve data goodness
Suania Acampa, Ciro Clemente De Falco, Domenico Trezza – University of Naples, Federico II
(Italy)
The evolution of Online Survey: reflections on the cross-national
probability-based online panels
Gianmaria Bottoni – City University of London (UK),
Felice Addeo – University of Salerno (Italy)
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F O U R T H S E S S I O N 2 6 /1 1 /2 0 2 0
| 9. 00 AM – 11. 00 AM
Ethnography goes online: theory, methods and research
Chair: Felice Addeo - University of Salerno (Italy)
Discussant: Alfonso Amendola – University of Salerno (Italy), Giammaria Bottoni
– City University of London (Italy)
Keynote speaker: Brian Joseph Gilley - Indiana University Bloomington (Usa)
Ethnography in the New Era of Pandemics and Cultural Loos
*****
Subject expert in the COVID era
Martina Carleo - University of Salerno (Italy)
Back to practices. Auto-ethnography as a practice of access to data and
algorithms
Elisabetta Risi – IULM University of Milan (Italy),
Tiziano Bonini – University of Siena (Italy), Riccardo Pronzato – IULM University of
Milan (Italy)
To be #celts today: features of a neo-pagan cult in the social media
Francesco Amatruda – University of Salerno (Italy)
Digital dark tourism during COVID-19 pandemic: a digital ethnography of
Italian red zones’ Facebook pages
Felice Addeo – University of Salerno (Italy), Giuseppe Michele Padricelli,
Gabriella Punziano – University of Naples, Federico II (Italy)
National differences and gender stereotypes in Days of Empire
Giuseppe Maiello – University of Finance and Administration, Prague (Czech Republic)
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Gender models and sexual scripts of T people on online dating Apps: a
netnographic study
Giuseppe Masullo, Marianna Coppola – University of Salerno (Italy)
The perception of the community and intimacy building in the art-fan
relationship. A self-netnography on Instagram feeds, stories and direct in the
Covid-19 lockdown period
Sonia Pozzi – Independent Researcher, Italy
Digital Ethnography. A systematic literature review
Angela Delli Paoli, Felice Addeo, Valentina D'Auria – University of Salerno (Italy)
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FIFTH SESSION
| 11. 00 AM – 1. 30 PM
The rebirth of Content Analysis in Digital Era
Chair: Angela Delli Paoli - University of Salerno (Italy)
Discussant: Francesca De Chiara – Bruno Kessler Foundation (Italy), Roberto Cipriani –
University of Rome, Roma Tre (Italy)
Keynote speaker: Maria Paola Faggiano – University of Rome, La Sapienza (Italy)
Content Analysis and Digital Data: methodological solutions between tradition and
innovation. The case of digital campaigns as meeting ground of expertises and research
perspectives
*****
Social Research on Wattpad. An example of small data research
Claudia Cantale – University of Catania (Italy)
How startuppers capitalise financial, reseources through online and offline
narratives
Vincenzo Luise, Patrizio Lodetti – University of Milan (Italy)
The political communication of Italia Viva on Instagram: from its formation to the
COVID-19 emergency
Agostino Stravolo, Assunta Luongo – University of Naples, Federico II (Italy)
Being a pirate: how pastafarian activism is built on the social media
Jacopo Ranzato – University of Rome, La Sapienza (Italy)
Methodological directions for the study of memes
Giulia Giorgi - NASP (University of Milan / University of Turin)
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Diaries from isolation
Federica Palmieri, Marco Sallusto Palmiero, Roberta Tofani, Jessica Parola
University of Naples, Federico II (Italy)
Italian twittephere in COVID-19 time: a topic analysis
Mara Maretti, Vanessa Russo, Lara Fontanella, Emiliano Del Gobbo –
University of Chieti-Pescara, Gabriele D’Annunzio (Italy)
| 1.00 PM – 2.30 PM LUNCH BREAK
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SIXTH S E S S I O N
| 2. 30 PM – 4. 00 PM
The contribution of the Mixed Methods to the Online Social Research Chair:
Gabriella Punziano – University of Naples, Federico II (Italy)
Discussant: Lucia Velotti – The City University of New York (Usa)
Keynote Speaker: Floriana Falcinelli – University of Perugia (Italy)
Research culture and educational sciences: digital challenge
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Delphi mix methods for future scenarios during social distancing
Antonio Tintori - National Research Council (CNR), Giulia Ciancimino –
Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies (IRPPS)
Case studies and digital platforms: methodological directions from reddit
Ilir Rama - University of Milan (Italy)
Tricked into supporting: a case study on computational propaganda
persuasion strategies
Valentina Nerino – University of Trento (Italy)
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SEVENTH SESSION
| 4. 30 PM – 6. 00 PM
The new imprint of the Social Network Analysis in the next scenario Chair:
Fabio Corbisiero – University of Naples, Federico II (Italy)
Discussant: Giuseppe Giordano – University of Salerno (Italy)
Keynote speaker: Maria Prosperina Vitale – University of Salerno (Italy)
Unveilling network data patterns in social media
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An exploratory study on the spread of fake news on Twitter: protection vs.
amplification
Alfonso Amendola, Simona Castellano, Giuseppe Giordano, Maria Prosperina Vitale –
University of Salerno (Italy)
Culture and networks in online social fields. Studying the duality of culture and
practice in social network sites through Bourdieu’s theory and
social network analysis
Marco Serino – University of Naples Federico II
@ConfesionesMachistas: social networks, participatory online research and new
masculinities
Javier Garcia-Martinez – Independent Researcher, Spain
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RESERVED SESSION
| 5: 30 PM - 6: 00 PM
Sessione S.F.OR.A. Sperimenta forma e orienta
Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II – Regione Campania
Chair: Amalia Caputo, presentazione piano operativo per il progetto S.F.O.R.A
nell’ambito del “Programma Scuola Viva – Azioni di accompagnamento”,
University of Naples, Federico II (Italy)
Discussant: Gianluca Attedemo, Luca Bifulco, Cristiano Felaco,
Dario Minervini, Gabriella Punziano – University of Naples, Federico II (Italy)
FINAL GREETINGS
| 6: 00 PM
Organizing Committee:
Giuseppe Masullo - Head of the International Lab for Innovative Social Research (ILIS) University of Salerno (Italy)
Felice Addeo - University of Salerno (Italy)
Angela Delli Paoli - University of Salerno (Italy)
Gabriella Punziano - University of Naples, Federico II (Italy)
Organizing Secretary:
Marianna Coppola - University of Salerno (Italy)
Francesca Ianniello - University of Salerno (Italy)
Miriam Matteo - University of Salerno (Italy)
Immacolata Senatore - University of Salerno (Italy)
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Innovative digital methodologies for the historical research
on the history of Europe: the Association of European
Historians as a case study
Alessandro Laruffa – University of Rome, La Sapienza (Italy)
Within the historiographical studies on the history of Europe in the 20th
century, we can observe methodologies mostly structured on archival
research and comparative methods. Currently, the digital revolution has
enabled the availability of great amounts of data, information and statistics.
The traditional research methodologies seem not sufficient to fully
exploit the potential of the new elements. The new historiography should
take into account the innovative methodologies of historical research, such
as the network analysis and the Digital Humanities.
The new methodologies cannot operate in place of the more established
research methodologies, but rather they could contribute to increasing their
management and analytical potential. Through digital infrastructures and
network analysis the researcher can organize and visualize otherwise
invisible elements, thus he is able to build a wider and more complete
image of the shapes and structures analysed. The management of huge
masses of information has a direct impact on the quality of research. Digital
humanists are aware of the urgency of conducting historical research
through the construction of databases according to international standards,
which can be consulted, updated and used even on software platforms
designed to change over time. The adoption of open code programs (open
source) and with free use license is a decisive step to limit as much as
possible the negative impact of the obsolescence of digital media and
therefore the risk of losing the results of historical research.
The proposed paper aims to analyze the application of Omeka-S, an
open source Content Management System (CMS) specifically designed for
humanities studies, to the historical research, with focus on the history of
Europe. The objective will be achieved using the network analysis and
Omeka-S with functions of digitization, metadatation, geolocation in
accordance with international standards. The case study will be the
Association of European Historians (AsE). In 1983, several historians
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from different European countries gave rise to a network named
“Association of European Historians” (AsE). The Association aimed to
define a functional methodology to narrate a collective European history
and no longer a sum of individual national histories, even amending the
role of the historian. The heart of the AsE was the Istituto Storico Italiano
per l’Età Moderna e Contemporanea (ISTSTOR) in Rome, official seat of
the Association network and place of marked European vocation.
Currently, the use of digital technologies, in combination with traditional
methodologies and network analysis, allows a more in-depth analysis of the
AsE’s network and its historiographical paradigm.
Keywords: history of Europe; digital humanities; Association of European
Historians.
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