Policy focus 8 May 2017 The Gibraltar case on Twitter By Giacomo Frassineti EuVisions examined online reactions to the Gibraltar case on Twitter, as one hot topic in the Brexit debate.
Policy focus 24 March 2017 Twitter and the Dutch elections By Francesca Arcostanzo A look at the main features of the online debate on the recent Dutch election.
Policy focus 17 February 2017 A network analysis of #eppresident By Francesca Arcostanzo A look at the main features of the online debate on the recent EP Presidential election.
Policy focus 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.
Policy focus 16 January 2017 The race for the European Parliament’s Presidency as seen on Twitter By Francesca Arcostanzo Guy Verhofstadt is the most widely debated, and the most criticized, of the seven EP presidential candidates.
Policy focus 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.
Policy focus 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.
Policy focus 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.
Policy focus 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.
Policy focus 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.