I am a PhD student in Political Science at University of Pisa. My research project focuses on identifying new opinion leaders in social media by means of Social Network Analysis. As a hybrid figure halfway between a computer scientist and a political scientist, I’ve often tried to combine computer and social science. Indeed, my degree thesis deals with the frame evolution of a political issue among media (Twitter, television and newspapers) that I analysed quantitatively with R software. As a member of the MediaLab of the Department of Political Science, I analysed a local electoral campaign in social media in collaboration with il Tirreno (local newspaper) and the National Research Council of Pisa (#Toscana15 project). I have focused on Social Network Analysis since I discovered that nodes and edges in a graph could represent human relationships.
