Giovanni Pagano

Giovanni Pagano works as a researcher at EuVisions where he focuses primarily on the analysis of social networking platforms to assess public opinion, and on the uses of social media for discussing and participating in politics. Previously he worked as project manager and web editor for the Torino World Affairs Institute (T.wai), an independent think tank based in Turin, Italy.

pagano@euvisions.eu

24 June 2019

The social dimension in the electoral programs of the European political groups

By Giovanni Pagano and Pietro Regazzoni

We analyzed the electoral programs published by the European political groups at the time of the 2014 and 2019 European elections, to shed light on the future path of the social dimension of the European integration.

13 March 2018

How Italy’s Five-Star Movement and the League Won the Twitter Campaign

By Giovanni Pagano, Francesca Arcostanzo and Martina Zaghi

We have followed 1,579 candidates and tracked their Twitter conversations in the two weeks before the Italian parliamentary elections. Also, we collected 400,000 citizens’ retweets and replies to candidates’ tweets.

2 March 2018

Delocalisation in the EU: the Embraco case on Twitter

By Martina Zaghi, Giovanni Pagano and Francesca Arcostanzo

EuVisions collected all conversations about the Embraco case that took place in the Italian Twitter-sphere between February 10 to 25, for a total amount of 50,984 tweets sent by 14,251 users. Many negative opinions were specifically addressed to the EU institutions and actors.

21 February 2018

Italian elections 2018: the Macerata attacks and the issue of immigration. A Twitter study

By Giovanni Pagano, Francesca Arcostanzo and Martina Zaghi

As the electoral campaign intensifies, political heat surrounding immigration remains high. Whatever the outcome of 4 March election will be, the issue of immigration is here to stay.

29 January 2018

Italian elections 2018: the online debate on “Euro-exit”

By Giovanni Pagano

The debate about Italy and the euro is a long-standing one on Twitter. However, the recent events seem to have spiced up the discussion, bringing the topic in the arena of the electoral campaign.

18 December 2017

Do German parties care about Europe? A Twitter study

By Giovanni Pagano, Francesca Arcostanzo and Martina Zaghi

Judging from the political debate on Twitter, the discussion about the European Union was not at the core of the German electoral campaign. However, surprisingly, mainstream parties demonstrated to be more capable than Eurosceptic ones to lead discussions on Europe.

3 November 2017

UK 2017 snap elections: did “tweeting Brexit” pay off?

By Francesca Arcostanzo and Giovanni Pagano

During the electoral campaign we tracked the Twitter activity of all the candidates in #GE2017 and measured the selective salience that candidates accorded to the Brexit theme. Results showed that tweeting “too much” about Brexit may have counterfired.

3 November 2017

UK 2017 snap elections: did “tweeting Brexit” pay off?

By Giovanni Pagano and Francesca Arcostanzo

22 September 2017

On the eve of the German elections, Alternative für Deutschland prevails on Twitter

By Francesca Arcostanzo and Giovanni Pagano

We have followed two weeks of the German electoral campaign on Twitter, collected over 200,000 tweets, and monitored the six main parties. We found that the rightwing nationalist Alternative für Deutschland dominates Twitter conversation.

31 July 2017

For Corbyn and against hard Brexit: British expats on Twitter during the #ge2017

By Francesca Arcostanzo and Giovanni Pagano

Judging from their tweeting, British expats residing in the EU27 countries lean to left of the political spectrum and are skeptical of a “hard Brexit” scenario.

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«Ultimately, the party which uses negative campaigning the most is the 5Star Movement: not only 5Star candidates use more than 10% of their tweets to attack their opponents, but they tweet more about Matteo Renzi (3.9%) and Silvio Berlusconi (4.1%) than they do about Luigi Di Maio himself (3.9%)»

Giovanni Pagano

Giovanni Pagano

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