Professor Stefano De Paoli

Teaching
Research

I presently teach on the subjects of Cybercrime and Policing Technology, AI and Society

RESEARCH SUPERVISION:

I am interested in surpevising dissertations in the following areas:

Cybercrime
Large Language Models application to Social Research
Sociology and Design

Interests

Currently Large Language Models and AI applications to Social Research are the top of my research work.

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Funding

Past Funding:

Project PIE News (Collective Awareness in Commonfare) Project Nr. 687922

European Commission (Horizon2020). Funding: 190200 Euros

Project STEP (Societal engagement of young Europeans in environmental issues / e-participation) Project Nr. 649493

European Commission (Horizon2020). Funding: 201875 Euros

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Invited Talks

“Come Costruirsi una Reputazione Online. E quali sono le conseguenze per la governante di internet” (How to Build an Online Reputation). Communication at the Internet Governance Forum Italia, 2011. Trento (Italy), 11 November 2011. (Talk on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY0sviMg95Y - in Italian)

“Social Network e Relazioni Sociali” (Social Network and Social Relations). Communication at the Azienda Sanitaria Emilia Romagna, 01 March, 2012.

Social networks and digital media: enhancing local participation. Presentation at OECD Trento as part of the Capacity Building Seminar DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING E-GOVERNMENT POLICIES: THE CASE OF THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY

De Paoli S. “Reputazione e Manipolazione” (Reputation and its manipulation). Communication at Internet Festival Pisa, 6 Ottobre 2012.

Invited papers and international translations

Kerr, A. , De Paoli S. & Keatinge M. (2011) Governance and Participation in Massively Multiplayer Online Games’. Invited paper at the ‘Social Participation and Digital Communities’ track at the Intel European Research and Innovation Conference, Leixlip, Ireland, 12th Oct., 2011.

My paper (with A. Kerr) The Assemblage of Cheating: How to Study Cheating as Imbroglio in MMORPGs. Has been translated in French as L’agencement de la triche. Aborder la triche dans les MMORPG comme un imbroglio. Réseaux 2012/3 n° 173-174

Scientific Coordination

Scientific Coordination of the 1st and 2nd Summer School in “Digital Journalism”- August – September 2011 & 2012: http://www.ahref.eu/it/media/comunicati-stampa/ahref-summer-school?set_language=it

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Digital Ethnography Week 2012 http://www.ahref.eu/en/ricerca/education/second-digital-ethnography-week-1?set_language=en

Knowledge Exchange

Social Media Design Work

Design of the "FactChecking" Reputation System (https://factchecking.civiclinks.it/it/)

Design of the Timu platform (citizen journalism platform, https://timu.civiclinks.it/en/ ) following components: User Profile.

With E. Bosio - Design of a rating system for a civic media platform. (only prototype stage - no implementation). Work presented as posterat the CHItaly 2013 conference.