Publications

A selection of publications by CSRLab members since 2021, with a focus on the Lab’s research areas: online hate and misogyny, disinformation and digital political communication, computational methods and artificial intelligence, futures and scenarios, migration and rights. Lab members are in bold.

Full publication lists are available on each researcher’s institutional page, linked from the Team page.

2026

  • Calleo Y., Di Zio S., Maturo F., “Community detection in small-sample ordinal regimes: A benchmarking framework for Delphi data”, Statistical Methods & Applications. doi:10.1007/s10260-026-00874-9
  • Calleo Y., Antonucci L., Di Zio S., “A hybrid network-fuzzy framework for sustainable tourism: Identifying latent structures from Delphi data”, Quality & Quantity. doi:10.1007/s11135-026-02857-0
  • Calleo Y., Bolzan M., Di Zio S., “A network-based fuzzy clustering approach to classify Delphi outputs in scenario development”, Quality & Quantity, 60(2). doi:10.1007/s11135-025-02485-0
  • Calleo Y., Pilla F., Di Zio S., “Generative pre-trained transformers for climate scenarios: a statistical coefficient for future policy development”, Quality & Quantity, 60(2). doi:10.1007/s11135-025-02423-0
  • Giordano G., Maretti M., Misuraca M., Costanzo G.D. (eds.), Ecologie dell’odio. Razzismi e populismi nell’era digitale. Milano: FrancoAngeli, Computational Social Science series. Open access
  • De Luca A., Maretti M., “Xenofobia online: populismi e othering nella sfera pubblica digitale”, in Ecologie dell’odio, FrancoAngeli. IRIS UdA
  • Maretti M., Salvatori C., “Automazione e agency: i sistemi di counter-speech tra efficienza algoritmica e resistenza comunitaria”, in Ecologie dell’odio, FrancoAngeli. IRIS UdA
  • Maretti M., Salvatori C., “Algorithmic governmentality and social control in migration management”, Sicurezza e scienze sociali, 1/2026. Article
  • Canzano Giansante A., De Luca A., “Relationship between AI and political elections: a bibliometric analysis”, Sicurezza e scienze sociali, 1/2026. IRIS UdA
  • Canzano Giansante A., De Luca A., “The Communicative Frame of the Right as a New Form of Secularized Religiosity”, Religions, 17(9). doi:10.3390/rel17091038
  • Di Zio S., Fontanella L., Tontodimamma A., “Assessing long-term strategies to effectively counteracting online misogynistic speech using a Delphi-based future scenarios approach”, Futures, 177. doi:10.1016/j.futures.2026.103773
  • del Gobbo E., Fontanella L., Ippoliti L., Di Zio S., Fontanella S., Cucco A., “A space-filling sampling approach for collective classification of social media data”, Advances in Data Analysis and Classification. doi:10.1007/s11634-026-00670-z
  • Chulvi B., Gonzalez J.Á., Fontanella L., Rangel F., “Beyond words: How LLMs mirror human needs and values generating synthetic data”, Big Data & Society, 13(3). doi:10.1177/20539517261457421
  • Cucco A., Giordano G., Fontanella L., Misuraca M., Sarra A., “Examining attitudes on migrants: a dual-method approach based on Item Response Theory and Structural Topic Modelling”, Statistical Methods & Applications. doi:10.1007/s10260-026-00875-8
  • del Gobbo E., Ippoliti L., Fontanella L., Cafarelli B., “Mining social media data to track environmental disaster events”, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 33(1). doi:10.1007/s10651-025-00699-x
  • Di Zio S., Calleo Y., Scioni M., Marozzi M., Bolzan M., “Mapping policy priorities and family needs in regional official documents of Northeast Italy using generative text analysis”, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 106. doi:10.1016/j.seps.2026.102561
  • Capanna Piscè G., Olivari L., “Micro-campi turistici su Reddit: distinzione simbolica, violenza algoritmica e regole comunitarie”, H-ermes. Journal of Communication, 30, pp. 120–137. PDF

2025

  • Calleo Y., Taylor A., Pilla F., Di Zio S., “AI-assisted Real-Time Spatial Delphi: integrating artificial intelligence models for advancing future scenarios analysis”, Quality & Quantity. doi:10.1007/s11135-025-02073-2
  • Calleo Y., Pilla F., Di Zio S., “Who is an expert? A robust coefficient for expertise quantification adopting web scraping and weighting methods”, International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making. doi:10.1142/S0219622025500555
  • Calleo Y., Di Zio S., Giuffrida N., “Assessing smartphone use while driving: A Real-Time Delphi study on risks and prevention strategies”, Research in Transportation Business & Management, 62. doi:10.1016/j.rtbm.2025.101469
  • Nieli M., Di Zio S., Fontanella L., Berti C., “Expectations and entitlements in higher education: Italian validation of the Academic Entitlement Questionnaire and the Learning Orientation and Grade Orientation Scale”, Giornale italiano di psicologia, 52(4). doi:10.1421/118808
  • Ignazzi E., Maretti M., Fontanella L., “The Italian Manosphere: Composition, Structure, and Functions of a Digital Network”, Social Inclusion, 13. doi:10.17645/si.9341
  • De Luca A., Maretti M., “Polarization and Politicization in Media Discourse: Comparing Climate Change Narratives in Italy and the U.S.”, Social Sciences, 14(12). doi:10.3390/socsci14120702
  • Russo V., Maretti M., “Electoral propaganda in digital space: profiling Facebook use in the Italian general election of 2018”, Quality & Quantity, 59(5). doi:10.1007/s11135-025-02152-4
  • Innerarity C., Canzano Giansante A., “National Populism and Religion: The Case of Fratelli d’Italia and Vox”, Religions, 16(2). doi:10.3390/rel16020200
  • del Gobbo E., Cucco A., Fontanella L., “Identification of Misogynistic Accounts on Twitter Through Graph Convolutional Networks”, in Statistical Models and Learning Methods for Complex Data, Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-84702-8_8
  • del Gobbo E., Ignazzi E., Cafarelli B., Fontanella L., “Misogynistic Content Detection Over Social Networks”, in Methodological and Applied Statistics and Demography III, Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-64431-3_92
  • Cucco A., del Gobbo E., Fontanella L., Fontanella S., Ippoliti L., “Covering the Online Spectrum of Opinion in Social Context: The Benefit of Network Node Sampling Through an Italian Case Study”, in Computational Science – ICCS 2025 Workshops, Springer LNCS. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-97554-7_5
  • Pronello N., del Gobbo E., Fontanella L., Ignaccolo R., Ippoliti L., Fontanella S., “Functional Graphical Models for Corpus Linguistics in Social Media”, in Methodological and Applied Statistics and Demography II, Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-64350-7_83
  • Calleo Y., Pilla F., Di Zio S., “Spatial Scenarios With Real-Time Spatial Delphi and Asymptotic Consensus Analysis: An Application to Ten European Coastal Cities”, Futures & Foresight Science, 7(2). doi:10.1002/ffo2.70013
  • Maretti M. (eds.), Mobilità umana e cambiamenti climatici. Un approccio ecologico alle migrazioni. IRIS UdA

2024

  • Maretti M., Di Zio S., Salvatori C., “Transizione energetica e accettabilità delle fonti alternative ai fossili”, in Maretti M. (ed.), Energia e mutamento sociale, Milano: FrancoAngeli, pp. 68–85. ISBN 9788835129622
  • Di Zio S., Gordon T.J., “Exploring a method to reduce inconsistency in the group Analytic Hierarchy Process using the Delphi method and Nudge theory”, Futures, 161. doi:10.1016/j.futures.2024.103413
  • Giuffrida N., Calleo Y., Di Zio S., Pilla F., Ottomanelli M., “Spatial participatory planning for urban logistics: A GIS-enhanced Real-Time Spatial Delphi approach”, Research in Transportation Economics, 108. doi:10.1016/j.retrec.2024.101488
  • Russo V., Andrighetto G., Maretti M., Polizzi E., Cecconi F., “Homophily and Insularity Dynamics in an Echo Chambers: Computational Models for the Study of the Conspiracy Subculture in Facebook”, Social Indicators Research, 178(3). doi:10.1007/s11205-024-03461-1
  • Fontanella L., Chulvi B., Ignazzi E., Sarra A., Tontodimamma A., “How do we study misogyny in the digital age? A systematic literature review using a computational linguistic approach”, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11. doi:10.1057/s41599-024-02978-7
  • Pronello N., Cucco A., del Gobbo E., Fontanella S., Fontanella L., “Dynamics of online debates: insights from textual network analysis”, Annals of Operations Research, 363(1). doi:10.1007/s10479-024-06315-8
  • Di Zio S., Bolzan M., Marozzi M., Scioni M., “Delphi-based scenarios and risk management: A parallelism between paths destined to meet”, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 92. doi:10.1016/j.seps.2024.101832
  • Miani M., Parton M., Romito M., “Curious Explorer: A Provable Exploration Strategy in Policy Learning”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 46(12). doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2024.3460972
  • Gregnanin M., Zhang Y., De Smedt J., Gnecco G., Parton M., “Signature-based portfolio allocation: a network approach”, Applied Network Science, 9(1). doi:10.1007/s41109-024-00651-1
  • Amato G. et al. (incl. Parton M.), “AI for Sustainability: Research at Ud’A Node”, Ital-IA 2024, CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3762. PDF
  • Spangaro A., Ricci A., “La tutela dell’interessato nell’economia dei dati: il ruolo delle cooperative di dati”, in EU Data Cooperatives. L’ingresso delle cooperative di dati nell’ordinamento europeo, Torino: Giappichelli, pp. 82–100. Record
  • Rossi T., “Chile: Heterogeneity and Complexity of a Country in Motion. Peruvian Community in Santiago”, International Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, 11(1). doi:10.20431/2349-0381.1101004

2023

  • Antonucci L., Balzanella A., Bruno E., Crocetta C., Di Zio S., Fontanella L., Sanarico M., Scarpa B., Verde R., Vittadini G., “Data science skills for the next generation of statisticians”, Statistical Journal of the IAOS, 39(4). doi:10.3233/SJI-230060
  • Di Zio S., Calleo Y., Bolzan M., “Delphi-based visual scenarios: An innovative use of generative adversarial networks”, Futures, 154. doi:10.1016/j.futures.2023.103280
  • Di Zio S., Tontodimamma A., del Gobbo E., Fontanella L., “Exploring the research dynamics of futures studies: An analysis of six top journals”, Futures, 153. doi:10.1016/j.futures.2023.103232
  • Di Berardo M., Di Zio S., Fontanella L., “World Futures Day 2022: A mixed method approach to identify topics of a global futures agenda”, Futures, 154. doi:10.1016/j.futures.2023.103244
  • Calleo Y., Di Zio S., Pilla F., “Facilitating spatial consensus in complex future scenarios through Real-Time Spatial Delphi: A novel web-based open platform”, Futures & Foresight Science, 5(3-4). doi:10.1002/ffo2.155
  • Calleo Y., Di Zio S., Pilla F., “A Natural Language Processing approach to measure expertise in the Delphi-based scenarios”, in ASA 2022 Data-Driven Decision Making, Firenze University Press. doi:10.36253/979-12-215-0106-3.29
  • Canzano Giansante A., “Trasformazioni sociopolitiche a destra. L’evoluzione da Alleanza Nazionale a Fratelli d’Italia: primi risultati di una ricerca empirica”, SocietàMutamentoPolitica, 13(25). doi:10.36253/smp-13794
  • Russo V., Reticoli, relazioni, attori e parole. La via italiana della Social Network Analysis (monograph). IRIS UdA

2022

  • Marozzi M., Di Zio S., Bolzan M., “Robust weighted aggregation of expert opinions in futures studies”, Annals of Operations Research. doi:10.1007/s10479-022-04990-z
  • Tontodimamma A., Fontanella L., Anzani S., Basile V., “An Italian lexical resource for incivility detection in online discourses”, Quality & Quantity, 57(4). doi:10.1007/s11135-022-01494-7
  • Maretti M., Russo V., Lucini B., “Resilience in online communities of practice during the COVID-19 pandemic: an Italian case study”, International Review of Sociology, 32(2). doi:10.1080/03906701.2022.2114871
  • Maretti M., “Società dell’informazione e dati aperti: genesi, attori, attanti e procedure di un ecosistema socio-tecnico”, in Bennato D., Vitale M.P. (eds.), Trasformazione digitale e competenze per la network society, FrancoAngeli, Computational Social Science series. IRIS UdA
  • Calleo Y., Di Zio S., Russo V., “Exploiting Text Mining and Network Analysis for future scenarios development: an application on remote working”, conference proceedings. IRIS UdA
  • Parton M. et al., “Artificial intelligence and renegotiation of commercial lease contracts affected by pandemic-related contingencies from Covid-19. The project A.I.A.Co.”, arXiv preprint. arXiv:2210.09515
  • Rossi T., “Feminisation Processes and Internal Migration in the Latin America Context: A Case Study”, International Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, 9(4). doi:10.20431/2349-0381.0904003

2021

  • Di Zio S., Bolzan M., Marozzi M., “Classification of Delphi outputs through robust ranking and fuzzy clustering for Delphi-based scenarios”, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 173. doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121140
  • Maretti M., Russo V., del Gobbo E., “Open data governance: civic hacking movement, topics and opinions in digital space”, Quality & Quantity, 55(3). doi:10.1007/s11135-020-01045-y
  • Russo V., del Gobbo E., “Inside Trending Topic Algorithm: How Do Human Interactions Drive Public Opinion in an Artificial Environment”, Social Science Computer Review, 41(1). doi:10.1177/08944393211041501
  • del Gobbo E., Fontanella L., Fontanella S., Sarra A., “Geographies of Twitter debates”, Journal of Computational Social Science, 5(1). doi:10.1007/s42001-021-00143-7
  • del Gobbo E., Fontanella S., Sarra A., Fontanella L., “Emerging Topics in Brexit Debate on Twitter Around the Deadlines”, Social Indicators Research, 156(2-3). doi:10.1007/s11205-020-02442-4
  • Tontodimamma A., Nissi E., Sarra A., Fontanella L., “Thirty years of research into hate speech: topics of interest and their evolution”, Scientometrics, 126(1). doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03737-6
  • Russo V., del Gobbo E., Fontanella L., Maretti M., “Italian Top Influencers on Twitter in COVID-19 Time: A Multiplex Network Analysis”, in Giordano G., Restaino M., Salvini A. (eds.), Methods and applications in social networks analysis, FrancoAngeli, Computational Social Science series. IRIS UdA