Much of the research quantifying volume and spread of online misinformation measures the construct at the source level, identifying a set of specif...
Fabio Giglietto
Professor of Internet Studies
University of Urbino
Department of Communication Sciences, Humanities and International Studies
About Me
Fabio Giglietto, PhD, is a distinguished Professor of Internet Studies at the Department of Communication Sciences, Humanities and International Studies at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo. In his capacity as a professor, he imparts knowledge in Internet Studies and spearheads research that delves into the intricate relationships between social systems, media, and digital technologies. His scholarly work primarily focuses on the theory of information, communication, and society, with a keen interest in how these domains intersect.
Professor Giglietto has made significant contributions to the field, as evidenced by his extensive publication record in prestigious journals such as the Journal of Communication, Information, Communication & Society, the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Social Media + Society, and Social Science Computer Review. With over 1,766 citations and 20 publications to his name, his research is widely recognized and influential in the academic community.
His recent work involves examining the dynamics of social media in the context of disinformation and computational social science. Notable among his publications are studies on second screen participation, the use of social media platforms as research data sources, and the role of social media in political events, such as the Italian elections and the Charlie Hebdo shooting. His ongoing projects continue to explore these themes, with a particular focus on the circulation of false information within hybrid news systems.
Professor Giglietto is actively engaged with the academic and broader community through platforms like BlueSky, Mastodon, and LinkedIn, where he shares insights and developments from his research. His commitment to advancing the understanding of media manipulation and social media analysis is reflected in both his scholarly work and his interactions with the wider public. Through his research, teaching, and outreach, he contributes significantly to the evolving discourse on the impact of digital technologies on society.
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Recent Publications
TRANSFORMATIVE TOOLS, EMERGING CHALLENGES: EMPIRICAL AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR TEXT CLASSIFICATION AND ANNOTATION IN COMMUNICATION STUDIES
Choucair, T., Kathirgamalingam, A., Lind, F., Bernhard, J., Boomgaarden, H., Oliveira, B., Maia, R., Vodden, L., Esau, K., Bruns, A., Svegaard, S., Farfan, K., Meyer, H., Puschmann, C., Brüggemann, M., Giglietto, F., Rossi, L., Righetti, N., & Marino, G. (2025). TRANSFORMATIVE TOOLS, EMERGING CHALLENGES: EMPIRICAL AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR TEXT CLASSIFICATION AND ANNOTATION IN COMMUNICATION STUDIES. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2024i0.14102
THE BRAZILIAN DIGITAL BATTLEFIELD: INVESTIGATING THE DYNAMICS OF POLITICAL INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS IN POST-BOLSONARO ERA
Marino, G., Almeida Paroni, B., & Giglietto, F. (2024). THE BRAZILIAN DIGITAL BATTLEFIELD: INVESTIGATING THE DYNAMICS OF POLITICAL INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS IN POST-BOLSONARO ERA. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2024i0.13999
Analisi Computazionale del Parallelismo Politico in Italia: Il Caso delle Elezioni 2022
Giglietto, F. (2024). Analisi Computazionale del Parallelismo Politico in Italia: Il Caso delle Elezioni 2022. .
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Evaluating Embedding Models for Clustering Italian Political News: A Comparative Study of Text-Embedding-3-Large and UmBERTo
Giglietto, F. (2024). Evaluating Embedding Models for Clustering Italian Political News: A Comparative Study of Text-Embedding-3-Large and UmBERTo. Center for Open Science. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/2j9ed
Facebook reactions in the context of politics and social issues: a systematic literature review
Anwar, S., & Giglietto, F. (2024). Facebook reactions in the context of politics and social issues: a systematic literature review. Frontiers in Sociology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1379265
Research Projects
vera.ai - VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence
An EU-funded Horizon Europe project developing advanced AI-based tools to assist journalists and fact-checkers in verifying multimedia content and combating disinformation. As Work Package 4 leader, I focus on the detection of coordinated behavior and inauthentic networks spreading misleading content.
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PROMPT - Predictive Research On Misinformation and Narratives Propagation Trajectories
An EU-funded initiative focused on detecting and analyzing disinformation narratives across Europe, addressing sensitive issues including the war in Ukraine, LGBTQI+ rights, and European elections through the development of language models, monitoring dashboards, and educational resources for fact-checkers and journalists.
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MINE - Mapping Italian News Research Program
A research program investigating Italian news media coverage and the impact of social media on Italian elections, leveraging data from Social Science One and grant funding from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).
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Implicit content plays a crucial role in political discourse, where speakers
systematically employ pragmatic strategies such as implicatures and
pr...
News sharing on digital platforms shapes the digital spaces millions of users
navigate. Trace data from these platforms also enables researchers to...
Malicious actors regularly attempt to manipulate social media using coordinated posting. Many existing methods for detecting this coordination, tho...
Published in Polit. Commun. | Year: 2025 | Authors: Votta, Fabio, Dobber, Tom, Guinaudeau, Benjamin, Helberger, Natali, de Vreese, Claes
Published in J. Eur. Public Policy | Year: 2025 | Authors: Gattermann, Katjana, van den Hoogen, Elske, de Vreese, Claes
Published in Inf. Commun. Soc. | Year: 2025 | Authors: Righetti, Nicola, Kulichkina, Aytalina, Almeida Paroni, Bruna, Cseri, Zsofia Fanni, Aguirre,...
This study examines the effects of a series of significant algorithm changes within Facebook’s News Feed on user engagement with news content on th...
Published in Polit. Commun. | Year: 2025 | Authors: Munger, Kevin
True costs of misinformation| mountains of evidence: Processual “redpilling” as a Socio-technical effect of disinformation
How do people come to believe Far-Right, extremist, and conspiratorial ideas they encounter online? This article examines how participants in prima...
Survey researchers rely heavily on closed-ended questions to measure latent respondent characteristics like knowledge, policy positions, emotion...
Beyond interaction patterns: Assessing claims of coordinated inter-state information operations on twitter/X
Social media platforms have become key tools for coordinated influence operations, enabling state actors to manipulate public opinion through strat...
This paper introduces CooRTweet, an innovative R package designed for detecting and analyzing coordinated behavior. CooRTweet's distinctiveness ...
Published in Crit. Stud. Media Commun. | Year: 2025 | Authors: Graham, Timothy
Multi-Modal Framing Analysis of News
Automated frame analysis of political communication is a popular task in computational social science that is used to study how authors select aspe...
Influence operations as brokerage: Political-economic infrastructures of manipulation in the 2022 Philippine elections
This study conceptualizes influence operations (IOs), an enterprise that orchestrates manipulative and inauthentic activities to achieve political ...
This chapter reviews the historical contribution of Twitter before it was rebranded as X in July 2023. Twitter was an open platform for social scie...
Platform polarization. Do alternative platforms drive discursive polarization?
Published in Comun. Politica | Year: 2025 | Authors: Kristensen, Jakob Bæk, Kristensen, Jakob Bæk
Coordinated inauthentic behavior on TikTok: Challenges and opportunities for detection in a video-first ecosystem
Detecting coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) is central to the study of online influence operations. However, most methods focus on text-centri...
We study the effects of social media political advertising by randomizing subsets of 36,906 Facebook users and 25,925 Instagram users to have polit...
Red-Teaming in the Public Interest
This report offers a vision for red-teaming in the public interest: a process that goes beyond system-centric testing of already built systems to c...
As the exploration of digital behavioral data revolutionizes communication
research, understanding the nuances of data collection methodologies bec...
The controversy over online misinformation and social media has opened a gap between public discourse and scientific research. Public intellectuals...
Conspiracy theories are a paradigmatic example of beliefs that, once adopted, are extremely difficult to dispel. Influential psychological theor...
In recent years, social media has become increasingly fragmented, as platforms evolve and new alternatives emerge. Yet most research studies a s...
Social media creates the possibility for rapid, viral spread of content, but how many posts actually reach millions? And is misinformation special ...
Abstract We present a method for estimating the ideology of political YouTube videos. The subfield of estimating ideology as a latent variable has ...
News & Updates
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June 08, 2025
An innovative AI-powered academic portfolio has been launched, automating the management of academic profiles. This tool aggregates publications, discovers web mentions, and syncs reading lists, offering daily updates effortlessly.
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June 08, 2025
The VERA AI project is concluding with a series of webinars this June, sharing outcomes from three years of disinformation detection research. The sessions will provide tools for journalists and fact-checkers, along with deep dives for academics.
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May 20, 2025
A third PhD scholarship is now available, providing more opportunities for aspiring researchers to advance their academic careers.
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