Research Projects
CRSLab is currently undertaking research into the following areas:
- Open data: reuse and applications to the creation of open welfare systems
- Hackers, crackers, and different kinds of hackerism
- Artificial intelligence and digital public opinion
- Hate speech, fake news, and information and disinformation processes
- Digital ethnography, virtual communities, and online subcultures
- The electoral observatory
- Cybersecurity and online terrorism
- Digital crime
- Privacy and protection of personal data
- Tourism 3.0
From the methodological point of view, the following research tools have been utilised:
- Web surveys and analysis of data and metadata
- Online focus groups
- Web scraping and reading people to people big data
- Digital ethnography
- Social network analysis
- Semantic social network analysis
- Text mining
- Machine learning
- Research activities
- Open data and open welfare
- Online communities of practice
- Junk information
- Hate speech
- Sustainable tourism and computational techniques
- Online analyses of the public sphere