In questo capitolo introdurremo le caratteristiche e le peculiarità dei dati social. Ci soffermeremo sulle criticità relative alla raccolta e all’analisi di tali dati, approfondendo alcune metodologie che permettono di utilizzare i dati social per...
This report presents the outcome of a series of analysis on different social media, where users discuss on drugs and their effects. The aim of such an analysis is twofold. First, we automatically detect drugs and their effects. Secondly, we explore the...
New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) are drugs that lay in a grey area of legislation, since they are not internationally and officially banned, possibly leading to their not prosecutable trade. The exacerbation of the phenomenon is that NPS can be easily...
While favouring communications and easing information sharing, Social Network Sites are also used to launch harmful campaigns against specific groups and individuals. Cyberbullism, incitement to self-harm practices, sexual predation are just some of the...
Nowadays, social media analysis systems are feeding on user contributed data, either for beneficial purposes, such as emergency management, or for user profiling and mass surveillance. Here, we carry out a discussion about the power and pitfalls of...
Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPSs), also known as legal highs or smart drugs, are legal alternatives to illegal drugs. Many drugs consumers are appealed by the opportunity of buying substances without any legal consequences. Online shops, virtual...
To visualize post-emergency damage, a crisis-mapping system uses readily available semantic annotators, a machine-learning classifier to analyze relevant tweets, and interactive maps to rank extracted situational information. The system was validated...
Abstract - Online availability and diffusion of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) represent an emerging threat to healthcare systems. In this work, we analyse drugs forums, online shops, and Twitter. By mining the data from these sources, it is...
Abstract - New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) are drugs that lay in a grey area of legislation, since they are not internationally and officially banned, possibly leading to their not prosecutable trade. The exacerbation of the phenomenon is that NPS...
Abstract - New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) are drugs that lay in a grey area of legislation, since they are not internationally and officially banned, possibly leading to their not prosecutable trade. The exacerbation of the phenomenon is that NPS...
Abstract - New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) are drugs that lay in a grey area of legislation, since they are not internationally and officially banned, possibly leading to their not prosecutable trade. The exacerbation of the phenomenon is that NPS...
The introduction of smartphones equipped with a front camera and constantly connected to social networks has encouraged the spread of usergenerated content of multimedia nature. This led to the emergence of new social phenomena that have a strong...
Abstract - Natural disasters such as earthquakes, tornadoes and floods, are just some of the devastating events that may have catastrophic consequences on wide geographical areas. A quick and targeted response to emergencies greatly contributes in...
Social sensing is based on the idea that communities or groups of people can provide sets of information similar to that which is obtainable from sensor networks. Emergency management and situation awareness are candidate fields of application for...
Abstract — Social Media are nowadays one of the most used channel for communicating with other people, continuously overwhelmed by a huge quantity of User Generated Content, including text, images and videos. A peculiar aspect of the published material...