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  1. Ten months of continuous coordinated-behaviour monitoring on Facebook: the VERA-AI Alert system and its empirical yield

    Article • August 2026, Center for Open Science

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  2. Measuring partisan community dynamics: a longitudinal analysis of affective engagement in pro-Bolsonaro Facebook networks

    Article • Information Communication & Society, July 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  3. Navigating Coordination and Inauthentic Behaviour

    Article • June 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  4. Amplifying extremes: the interplay of social media and traditional media in shaping political polarization

    Article • June 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  5. Beyond the share button: How partisan alignment, journalistic quality, and algorithmic governance shape what millions see on Facebook

    Article • Platforms & Society, May 2026, SAGE Publications

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  6. From the Wild West to the Walled Garden

    Article • M/C Journal, April 2026, Queensland University of Technology

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  7. Synthetic Seduction: Evolving Visual Persuasion in Coordinated Online Gambling Promotion with Generative AI

    Article • January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  8. "A Pretty Blunt Approach": Meta's Political Content Reduction Policy and Italian Parliamentarians' Facebook Visibility

    Article • December 2025, Center for Open Science

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  9. "A Pretty Blunt Approach": Meta's Political Content Reduction Policy and Italian Parliamentarians' Facebook Visibility

    Article • December 2025, Center for Open Science

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  10. THE BRAZILIAN DIGITAL BATTLEFIELD: INVESTIGATING THE DYNAMICS OF POLITICAL INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS IN POST-BOLSONARO ERA

    Article • AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, January 2025, University of Illinois Libraries

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  11. Evaluating Embedding Models for Clustering Italian Political News: A Comparative Study of Text-Embedding-3-Large and UmBERTo

    Article • August 2024, Center for Open Science

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  12. Facebook reactions in the context of politics and social issues: a systematic literature review

    Article • Frontiers in Sociology, May 2024, Frontiers

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  13. Cracking Open the European Newsfeed

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Description Digital Media, December 2023, Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  14. A Workflow to Detect, Monitor, and Update Lists of Coordinated Social Media Accounts Across Time: The Case of the 2022 Italian Election

    Article • Social Media + Society, July 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  15. Political polarization in the frequency British newspapers mention scientists with different views on COVID-19

    Article • January 2023, Center for Open Science

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  16. Citizens’ Engagement with the ‘Seaside Campaign’ on Instagram and Facebook

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  17. Coordinated inauthentic behavior

    Article • October 2022, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  18. Unexpected consequences of a simple threshold: the effect of the 100 public shares on Meta’s URL Shares Dataset

    Article • August 2022, Center for Open Science

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  19. Mapping Nefarious Social Media Actors to Speed-up Covid-19 Fact-checking

    Article • January 2022, Center for Open Science

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  20. Blowing on the Fire: An Analysis of Low Quality and Hyper Partisan News Sources Circulated by Coordinated Link Sharing Networks in Nigeria

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  21. Between Localism and Politics: Mapping Coordinated Networks that Circulate Problematic Health Content in India

    Article • January 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  22. Widespread Low-Quality News Sources, Ethnic and Religious Divisions: An Analysis of the Drivers Propelling Coordinated Circulation of Problematic Health Information in Nigeria

    Article • January 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  23. COORNET: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO SURFACE PROBLEMATIC CONTENT, MALICIOUS ACTORS, AND COORDINATED NETWORKS

    Article • AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, September 2021, University of Illinois Libraries

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  24. Ciarlatani. Post-verità, contropubblici online e nuove articolazioni della fiducia nel sistema della medicina

    Article • SALUTE E SOCIETÀ, May 2021, Franco Angeli

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  25. Using Facebook’s Advertising Platform for Recruiting Online Survey Respondents

    Article • January 2021, SAGE Publications

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  26. Coordinated Hateful Disinformation on Italian Politics and Social Issues, since 2017

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  27. Research Note: Top 10 Most Viewed Links on Facebook during 2020

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  28. DETECTING COORDINATED LINK SHARING BEHAVIOR ON FACEBOOK DURING THE ITALIAN CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK

    Article • AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, October 2020, University of Illinois Libraries

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  29. Coordinated Link Sharing Behavior as a Signal to Surface Sources of Problematic Information on Facebook

    Article • June 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  30. It takes a village to manipulate the media: coordinated link sharing behavior during 2018 and 2019 Italian elections

    Article • Information Communication & Society, March 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  31. Adapting to Mitigation Efforts: Evolving Strategies of Coordinated Link Sharing on Facebook

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  32. An Italian Network of Memes, News, Spam Pages, and Dietary Supplements

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  33. Understanding Coordinated and Inauthentic Link Sharing Behavior on Facebook in the Run-up of 2018 General Election and 2019 European Election in Italy

    Article • September 2019, Center for Open Science

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  34. Il patchwork mediale

    Article • SOCIOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE, September 2019, Franco Angeli

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  35. Diverging patterns of interaction around news on social media: insularity and partisanship during the 2018 Italian election campaign

    Article • Information Communication & Society, June 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  36. Steering the world from where we are: An introduction to the sociocybernetics perspective

    Article • Current Sociology, April 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  37. ‘Fake news’ is the invention of a liar: How false information circulates within the hybrid news system

    Article • Current Sociology, April 2019, SAGE Publications

    Laura Iannelli, Professor Fabio Giglietto

  38. Facebook Digital Traces for Survey Research: Assessing the Efficiency and Effectiveness of a Facebook Ad–Based Procedure for Recruiting Online Survey Respondents in Niche and Difficult-to-Reach Populations

    Article • Social Science Computer Review, December 2018, SAGE Publications

    Laura Iannelli, Professor Fabio Giglietto

  39. A Hashtag Worth a Thousand Words: Discursive Strategies Around #JeNeSuisPasCharlie After the 2015 Charlie Hebdo Shooting

    Article • Social Media + Society, January 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  40. Networked intimacy. Intimacy and friendship among Italian Facebook users

    Article • Information Communication & Society, June 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  41. Twitter Use During TV: A Full-Season Analysis of #serviziopubblico Hashtag

    Article • Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, April 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  42. Limiti e possibilità degli online social data

    Article • SOCIOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE, September 2015, Franco Angeli

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  43. Twitter, TV & the Hybrid spaces of politics

    Article • Information Communication & Society, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  44. Osservatorio sul Fascicolo Sanitario Elettronico in Italia: eccellenze e criticità

    Article • SOCIOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE, December 2014, Franco Angeli

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  45. Twitter, Second Screen & Participation

    Article • Journal of Communication, March 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  46. Social tv: audience engagement e auto-rappresentazione dell'identità in rete

    Article • SOCIOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE, March 2014, Franco Angeli

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  47. Twitter TV correlations

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  48. Second Screen and Participation: A Content Analysis of a Full Season Dataset of Tweets

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  49. Social TV: Audience Engagement E Autorappresentazione Dell’identita’ in Rete (Social TV: Networked Publics Between Engagement and Identity Construction)

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  50. Limits and Possibilities of Using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube as a Research Data Source

    Article • Journal of Technology in Human Services, July 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  51. Moving towards a socially-driven internet architectural design

    Article • ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, June 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Fabio Giglietto, Prof. Dr. Rute C. Sofia

  52. Ethics and Interdisciplinarity in Computational Social Science

    Article • Methodological Innovations Online, April 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  53. If Likes Were Votes: An Empirical Study on the 2011 Italian Administrative Elections

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  54. Social Media and Italian Universities: An Empirical Study on the Adoption and Use of Facebook, Twitter and Youtube

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  55. Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning)

    Article • Information Communication & Society, February 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  56. Modernity 2.0: dove sociocibernetica e Internet Studies si incontrano

    Article • SOCIOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE, June 2010, Franco Angeli

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  57. La semantica dei sistemi sociali negli spazi mediati di rete: nuove prospettive di ricerca per le scenze sociali

    Article • SOCIOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE, May 2009, Franco Angeli

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  58. Testi, Consumi Mediali E Pubblici Produttivi in Italia. Analisi Delle Pratiche Di Social TV Da #XF6 a #Serviziopubblico (From #XF6 to #ServizioPubblico Cross-Genre Analysis of TV Audience Participatory Practices in Italy)

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  59. Understanding the Online News Consumer: A Comparative Study Between Italy and United States (L’Informazione da Rito a Puzzle - Le News e Gli Italiani: Dalla Carta Stampata, Alla Rete al Mobile)

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Fabio Giglietto

  60. Understanding Engagement and Willingness to Speak Up in Social-Television: A Full-Season, Cross-Genre Analysis of TV Audience Participation on Twitter

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Professor Fabio Giglietto