Daniel Gayo-Avello @ the University of Oviedo

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 venues 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 CUP. I have also written a book about Politics and Social Media which has not yet been published.

Daniel Gayo-Avello. Picture by María E. Fernández Menéndez.

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September 26, 2017

MERA: A Musical Entities Reconciliation Architecture Based on Semantic Technologies

With Daniel Fernández-Álvarez, Jose Emilio Labra Gayo and Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos, to appear in International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), 13(4)

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.