My name is Michela Del Vicario and I am a Post-Doctoral Fellow at IMT Lucca and a fellow member of the Laboratory of Computational Social Science (CSSLab), under Networks research unit.
My current research at IMT focuses on complex networks, and in particular on the anlysis and modelling of information diffusion and opinion dynamics on online social network.
I received my Ph.D. in Computer, Decision, and System Science at IMT Lucca in 2016, with the thesis "The Role of Confirmation Bias in the Emergence of Echo Chambers: A Data-driven Approach", under the supervision of provessor Guido Caldarelli and Dr. Walter Quattrociocchi. I studied Mathematics at the University of Rome La Sapienza where I recieved my M.Sc. in 2013. My degree thesis was carried out under the supervision of Professor Giovanni Sebastiani with the title “Thoretical properties of preferential attachment graphs”.
Publications
Journal Papers
I. Crimaldi, M. Del Vicario, G. Morrison, W. Quattrociocchi, M. Riccaboni. Modeling Networks with a Growing Feature-Structure. Interdisciplinary Information Science, 2017.
M. Del Vicario, F. Zollo, G. Caldarelli, A. Scala, W. Quattrociocchi. Mapping social dynamics on Facebook: The Brexit debate. Social Networks, 50, 2017.
M. Del Vicario, A. Scala, G. Caldarelli, H. E. Stanley, W. Quattrociocchi. Modeling Confirmation Bias and Polarization. Scientific Reports, doi:10.1038/srep40391, 2017.
A. L. Schmidt, F. Zollo, M. Del Vicario, A. Bessi, A. Scala, G. Caldarelli, H. E. Stanley, W. Quattrociocchi. Anatomy of News Consumption on Facebook. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1617052114, 2017.
F. Zollo, A. Bessi, M. Del Vicario, A. Scala, G. Caldarelli, L. Shekhtman, S. Havlin, W. Quattrociocchi. Debunking in a World of Tribes. PLoS ONE 12(7):e0181821, 2017.
A.Bessi, F. Petroni, M. Del Vicario}, F. Zollo, A. Anagnostopoulos, A. Scala, G. Caldarelli, W. Quattrociocchi. Homophily and Polarization in the Age of Misinformation. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 225: 2047. doi:10.1140/epjst/e2015-50319-0, 2016.
A. Bessi, F. Zollo, M. Del Vicario, M. Puliga, A. Scala, G. Caldarelli, B. Uzzi, and W. Quattrociocchi. User Polarization of Facebook and Youtube. PLoS ONE 11(8):e0138740. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.015964, 2016.
M. Del Vicario, G. Vivaldo, A. Bessi, F. Zollo, A. Scala, G. Caldarelli, W. Quattrociocchi. Echo Chambers: Emotional Contagion and Group Polarization on Facebook. Sceintific Reports, doi:10.1038/srep37825, 2016.
M. Del Vicario, A. Bessi, F. Zollo, F. Petroni, A. Scala, G. Caldarelli, H. E. Stanley, W. Quattrociocchi. The Spreading of Misinformation Online. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1517441113, 2016.
A. Bessi, F. Zollo, M. Del Vicario, A. Scala, G. Caldarelli, and W. Quattrociocchi. Trend of Narratives in the Age of Misinformation. PLoS ONE 10(8): e0134641. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0134641, 2015.
- F. Zollo, P. K. Novak, M. Del Vicario, A. Bessi, I. Mozetic, A. Scala, G. Caldarelli, and W. Quattrociocchi. Emotional Dynamics in the Age of Misinformation. PLoS ONE 10(9): e0138740. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138740, 2015.
Conference Papers
A. Bessi, F. Zollo, M. Del Vicario, A. Scala, F. Petroni, B. Goncalves, W: Quattrociocchi. Everyday the Same Picture: Popularity and Content Diversity. Workshop on Complex Networks CompleNet, 225-236, 2017.
M. Del Vicario, S. Gaito, W. Quattrociocchi, M. Zignani, F. Zollo. Public discourse and news consumption on online social media: A quantitative, cross-platform analysis of the Italian Referendum. Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Anvanced Analytics, 2017.
M. Zignani, C. Quadri, M. Del Vicario, S. Gaito, G.P. Rossi. Temporal communication motifs in mobile cohesive groups. Proceeding of the 6th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, 2017. (to appear)
F. Zollo, M. Del Vicario, R. Dunlap, W. Quattrociocchi, A. Scala. The Climate Change debate on Facebook: A Clash on contrasting narratives beyond rational arguments. Proceeding of BIWAES 2017
M. Del Vicario, Q. Zhang, A. Bessi, G. Caldarelli, and F. Zollo. Structural Patterns of the Occupy Movement on Facebook. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications, 595-606, Springer International Publishing, 2016.
A. Bessi, F. Petroni, M. Del Vicario, F. Zollo, A. Anagnostopoulos, A. Scala, G. Caldarelli, and W. Quattrociocchi. Viral misinformation: the role of homophily and polarization. Proceedings of WWW'15, WebSci Track Papers & Posters, 2015.
A. Bessi, G. Caldarelli, M. Del Vicario, A. Scala, and W. Quattrociocchi. Social Determinants of Content Selection in the Age of (Mis)Information. Social Informatics, 259-268, Springer, 2014.