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

9 June 2017

Le Pen vs globalization – A Twitter study of the French presidential campaign

By Francesca Arcostanzo and Giovanni Pagano

A look at how the European Twitter-sphere reacted to Marine Le Pen’s anti-globalization message.

6 February 2017

Notes on the Europeanization of Twitter – Part III

By Francesca Arcostanzo and Giovanni Pagano

In the third instalment of our analysis we look at European reactions to the Italian constitutional referendum.

31 October 2016

Notes on the Europeanization of Twitter – Part II

By Francesca Arcostanzo and Giovanni Pagano

We continue our study of online Europeanization by looking at the role of parties, political leaders and the media.

10 October 2016

Notes on the Europeanization of Twitter – Part I

By Giovanni Pagano

While intergovernmental EU events generate longer Twitter debates, discussions triggered by supranational events are more Europeanized in nature.

22 June 2016

Brexit and Twitter: a tale of two campaigns

By Giovanni Pagano and Alexander Damiano Ricci

In this study we look at how the EU referendum has been publicly discussed in the UK on Twitter. More precisely, we are interested in understanding the development of the thematic focus of the general Brexit debate as well as the behaviour of particular groups of users.

6 May 2016

Corbyn’s EU-turn speech as seen from Twitter

By Giovanni Pagano and Alexander Damiano Ricci

Jeremy Corbyn's pro-EU speech did not lead to relevant changes in British citizens’ preferences on the EU referendum. We looked at Twitter data to shed some light on the reaction of the Twittersphere.

25 January 2016

Renzi vs Juncker: A social media analysis

By Giovanni Pagano, Alexander Damiano Ricci and Pier Domenico Tortola

The recent war of words between Matteo Renzi and Jean-Claude Juncker, triggered by the latter’s critical remarks towards Italy is only the latest, and certainly one of the most visible episodes in what some have called a new fault line in European politics.

6 January 2016

Cameron’s renegotiation speech and intra-EU migration: how the web reacted

By Giovanni Pagano and Alexander Damiano Ricci

Using natural language processing, we analyse reactions to Cameron’s speech on Twitter. We focus, in particular, on the issue of intra-EU migration, the most politically sensitive and prominent in the current Brexit debate.

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«Looking at the interactions-per-citizen ratio, people tweeting from smaller countries, such as Cyprus, Malta and Hungary, emerged as the most active in retweeting and replying to MEPs of different nationalities rather than their own. »

Giovanni Pagano

Giovanni Pagano

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