Academic Articles
- The Platformization of Gender and Sexual Identities: An Algorithmic Analysis of Pornhub by Ilir Rama, Lucia Bainotti, Alessandro Gandini, Giulia Giorgi, Silvia Semenzin, Claudio Agosti, Giulia Corona, Salvatore Romano (Porn Studies, pre-print) Slides MozFest 7 min talk
- YTTREX: Crowdsourced Analysis of YouTube’s Recommender System During COVID-19 Pandemic. Pdf, Project updates, Call to action. by Leonardo Sanna, Salvatore Romano, Giulia Corona, Claudio Agosti (Communications in Computer and Information Science, 05/2021).
- Political advertising exposed: tracking Facebook ads in the 2021 Dutch elections by Davide Beraldo, Stefania Milan, Jeroen de Vos, Claudio Agosti, Bruno Nadalic Sotic, Rens Vliegenthart, Sanne Kruikemeier, Lukas P Otto, Susan A. M. Vermeer, Xiaotong Chu, Fabio Votta. (Policyreview, 03/2021)
- Warehouse of information: Amazon’s data collection practices and their relation to GDPR by Dimitri Koehorst (University of Amsterdam master thesis, 09/2020)
- Implementing Eco’s Model Reader with Word Embeddings. An Experiment on Facebook Ideological Bots by Leonardo Sanna (Linguistic Forum 2020, 06/2020)
- Thinking Outside the Black-Box: The Case for “Algorithmic Sovereignty” in Social Media by Urbano Reviglio, Claudio Agosti (Social Media and Society, 04/2020)
- Personalization algorithms and elections: breaking free of the filter bubble by Stefania Milan, Claudio Agosti (Policyreview, 02/2019)
- Fairness in online social network timelines: Measurements, models and mechanism design by Eduardo Hargreaves, Claudio Agosti, Daniel Menasche, Giovanni Neglia, Alexandre Reiffers-Masson, and Eitan Altman (Performance Evaluation, 11/2018)
- Biases in the Facebook News Feed: a Case Study on the Italian Elections by Eduardo Hargreaves, Claudio Agosti, Daniel Menasche, Giovanni Neglia, Alexandre Reiffers-Masson, and Eitan Altman (International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 10/2018)
- Facebook’s Influence on Italy: Tracking Exposed Experiment by Fabio Chiusi and Claudio Agosti (Privacy International for Tactical Tech, 09/2018)
- Visibilidade no Facebook: Modelos, Medições e Implicações. Pdf by Brasnam, Eduardo Hargreaves, Daniel Sadoc Menasché, Giovanni Neglia, and Claudio Agosti (Anais do VII Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining, 07/2018)
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2022
- Mapping Ban and Shadow-Ban on TikTok: Expose hidden censorship with a cross-national research (Digital Methods Winter School, 01/2022)
2021
- Analysis of Political Ads in Digital Campaigns (PAADC): monitoring and analysing Facebook sponsored content during Dutch general elections. (De Volkskrant, 2021)
- FiterTUbe: Echo chambers, Filter Bubble and Polarization on Youtube. (Digital Methods Winter School, 01/2021)
2020
- Pornhub collaborative observation Web Slides by Giulia Corona, Salvatore Romano, Claudio Agosti. (Tracking Exposed, 03/2020)
- Exploring Facebook’s role in Ethiopia’s rising ethnic tensions by Syver Petersen (DatActivism, 03/2020)
- Tracking Gender Bias in Amazon Search Results (Digital Methods Winter School, 01/2020)
- Is Amazon.com the Same Everywhere? (Digital Methods Winter School, 01/2020)
- Choose Your Price on Amazon: Windows 10 vs. macOS (Digital Methods Winter School, 01/2020)
- Does Amazon know your Wealth? (Digital Methods Winter School, 01/2020)
2019
- Amazon’s Choice: An inquiry into Amazon (Digital Methods Winter School, 01/2020)
- Analysis of Amazon’s algorithm (National TV channel “Rai2”, TV Program: “Petrolio”, Episod: “Il mondo (segreto) di Amazon”, 12/2019.) - italian video - password is “trex”.
- Algorithm exposed: investigating Youtube’s personalization , Slides (Digital Methods Summer School, 06/2019)
- When corporation pretend to help: Why we need data activism by Claudio Agosti (DatActivism blog, 05/2019)
2018
- The invisible curation of content | Facebook’s News Feed and our information diets. Spanish version, Abstract, Data. by Renata Ávila, Juan Ortiz Freuler and Craig Fagan. Claudio Agosti. (WebFoundation, 04/2018)
2017
- Could populism be a side effect of the Personalized Algorithm? by Claudio Agosti (OpenDemocracy, 10/2017)
- Facebook algorithm and impact on media: French election experiment #1 by Claudio Agosti, Raffaele Angus. (Medium, 05/2017)