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francescobailo.bsky.social
I am a Lecturer in Data Analytics in the Social Sciences at the University of Sydney where I am also deputy director of Centre for AI, Trust and Governance. francescobailo.net
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submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting thing about the Donald vs Elon bar fight is that they are throwing food at each from within the boundaries of their own personal social media platforms while never crossing these boundaries. Elon keeps pinging Trump’s X accounts but has to screenshot his Truth posts to reply to them.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Bukele, with 1% of his population behind bars likely the world most successful mass-incarcerator under 40, now also arresting journalists under charges of fostering “public anxiety” when they report on his political ascension.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 New research! With Milly Stilinovic & @dhutchman.bsky.social, we explore how AI is being creatively misused in experimental online spaces we call Underspheres — and why current regulation can’t keep up. New Media & Society doi.org/10.1177/1461... Conversation theconversation.com/ai-is-moving...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

🚨Proud Supervisor Alert🚨 Pleased to share this open source article in New Media & Society, first-authored by Milly Stilinovic. With contributions from @francescobailo.bsky.social Francesco Bailo, we explore the dark sides of #GenAI within the creative worlds: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

@lukemansillo.com how does it look like?

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

🚨Just out in Journal of Info Tech & Politics🚨 How the Internet helped Italy's Five Star Movement break out of legacy networks and activate politically disengaged voters. I introduce Internet capital — digital resources enabling mobilization beyond traditional networks and reshaping geography.

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

If you consider that Trump policy outbursts always appear first on his privately owned, for-profit social media app everything makes much more sense. Government by click-bait. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

The Social Science tribe is organized into two moieties—LaTeX and Word. Intricate rules govern their interactions: who can coauthor with whom, visit which sacred conference, and many others. On weekends, they practice competitive dances in which they enact their struggle, keeping the tribe together.

submitted 154 days ago • 2 comments

Francesco Marolla presenting our paper on cross platform affordances in the #M5S at #cs2italy

submitted 155 days ago • 0 comments

I am presenting later today at #CS2Italy our project on using YouTube comments to track social perception of violence. Slides here: fraba.github.io/presentation...

submitted 156 days ago • 0 comments

@alexvespi.bsky.social at #CS2Italy2025: "CSS should strive to provide **actionable** science and analytics, incorporating realism and complexity; otherwise, it risks becoming disconnected from the public's needs and expectations."

submitted 156 days ago • 0 comments

@alexvespi.bsky.social keynote opening #CS2Italy2025 cs2italy.org

submitted 156 days ago • 0 comments

CS2Italy, the first Italian conference on Computational Social Science, is starting in a week in Trento! It will consist of one day of tutorials and two days of exciting contributions, including four stellar invited speakers. Check out the final program at cs2italy.org!

submitted 162 days ago • 1 comment

They have fenced, advertised and shittified the Internet in every possible way (and made billions in the process) but now they claim to fight for a free Internet to uncover the Kennedy assassination conspiracy. A time for truth and reconciliation on.ft.com/407WVSF

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

This is passion mixed with a bit of insanity

submitted 189 days ago • 0 comments

Who wants to see the worst pie chart of the year #dataviz

submitted 190 days ago • 93 comments

In times of regime change, always remember: first write your constitution, then run your general election. Running the general election before writing the constitution dramatically increases the chances of not having a second election.

submitted 195 days ago • 0 comments

Democracy is fragile

submitted 200 days ago • 0 comments

Lets tune out the news and see how it’s going over in the “run AI on the desktop” community.

submitted 214 days ago • 11 comments