2015-2016

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.

In 2014 Marco obtained his Master’s degree in Political Sciences and Decisional Processes at the University of Florence with a thesis regarding a quantitative analysis about the eco-efficiency of the italian Regions. Since the time of university’s period he started doing some experiences in the journalism field, dedicating himself to the local chronicle, where he also started working as publisher dealing with the optimization web issues and social media management. His main interests include: local development policies and digital strategies.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marco-lorenzetti-877bb860

Cecilia Rinaldi was born in Cecina (LI) on 05/02/1981. She holds a Bachelor degree in Business Administration and a Master's degree in Statistics from the University of Pisa. In 2006, a few months before graduation, she began working for Ducato S.p.A. as marketing analyst. Since 2010 works as data analyst on SAS platform at Agos Ducato S.p.A., specifically focusing on business intelligence and multivariate statistical analysis in direct marketing and credit cards. She decided to attend the master to expand their programming skills and acquire skills in analyzing text and data from social media. https://it.linkedin.com/in/rinaldicecilia