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Federico Pilati

Adjunct professor

Department of Political and Social Sciences

Research

Keywords: Digital Platforms Digital Cultural Production Algorithmic Public Opinion Digital Methods Generative Artificial Intelligence

- Cultural production on digital platforms, as explored in AO3 (Convergence) and TikTok (HSSC);

- The creator economy and monetization systems on digital platforms, with examples such as Twitch (Scientific Reports) and Bandcamp (IJCP);

- Digital subcultures linked to conspiracy theories, with a particular focus on early Web 2.0 forums and Reddit (New Media & Society);

- Infodemic and digital knowledge communities on Twitter (Social Science & Medicine), with particular attention to the risks of disinformation and algorithmic censorship (Frontiers in Sociology);

- Mediatized controversies at the intersection of junk news and the attention economy on Facebook (RIS) and Twitter (ComPol, Tecnoscienza, PaCo, Comunicazioni Sociali);

- Artificial Intelligence both as a tool for social research (Sociologica) and as an active agent in algorithmic public opinion (Frontiers in Political Science).

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