Associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oviedo
In 2000 I started teaching in the University of Oviedo where I got my PhD in 2005. My main area of interest is Web IR but I'm now focused on social media research. I have published in international conferences, journals and magazines, such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Internet Computing, or IEEE Multimedia. I acted as guest co-editor for a special issue of Internet Research on the predictive power of social media, and I contributed a chapter on Political Opinion to "Twitter: A Digital Socioscope", published by Cambridge University Press. I have also written a book about Politics and Social Media which has not yet been published.
Latest updates
September 1, 2017
An Ethical Inquiry into Youth Suicide Prevention Using Social Media Mining
With Amaia Eskisabel-Azpiazu and Rebeca Cerezo-Menéndez; to appear in Michael Zimmer and Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda (Eds.) "Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age" published by Peter Lang.
August, 2017
Social Media Won't Free Us
Social media has been lauded as a democracy catalyzer while overlooking the adversarial opportunities it offers: Social media isn't going to overthrow authoritarianism but it might help to pave the way for authoritarian manners in democratic countries.
March 8, 2017
Reconstruction of a free-standing sculpture using SfM
A student and I have been working on the reconstruction of one sculpture using Structured from Motion methods.
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