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2021

Todo es mentira, salvo alguna cosa (Comportamiento malicioso en la Web)
My talk at TechFest 2021 organized at Escuela de Ingeniería Informática (Oviedo)—in Spanish. (January 27, 2021):
Prophylaxis for Twitter (January 25, 2021):
In another instance of "water is wet" kind of advice I'm collecting some tips to use Twitter in a healthy way and not in the much more common "hell site" mode.

Cómo ha cambiado la política en la era digital (November 9, 2020):
Interview with Gonzalo Rivero at the ACOP podcast on political communication (in Spanish).
Retooling Politics (book) (June 11, 2020):
"Retooling Politics: How Digital Media Are Shaping Democracy" (coauthored with Andreas Jungherr and Gonzalo Rivero) is already available.
Reconstruction of "La Dama del balcón" (May 25, 2020):
The 3D reconstruction of the free-standing sculpture "La Dama del balcón" conducted by my student Luis Parra Gibello is available to explore and download.
Twitter historical dataset 2006-2009 (May 19, 2020):
After being in a metaphorical drawer for quite a long time I'm publishing this: "Twitter historical dataset: March 21, 2006 (first tweet) to July 31, 2009 (3 years, 1.5 billion tweets)"
Retooling Politics (May 2, 2020):
The forthcoming book "Retooling Politics: How Digital Media Are Shaping Democracy" is already available in preview in Google Books.
Tools of the trade for graduate students (April 20, 2020):
A moodboard for students starting graduate school in Computer Science.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark (July 4, 2019):
...And when I say “the state of Denmark” I mean current practices of research and publishing.
Analyzing the use of existing systems for the CLPsych 2019 Shared Task (May 1, 2019):
With Alejandro González Hevia and Rebeca Cerezo Menéndez, to appear in CLPSYCH 2019. Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology Workshop
"La campaña más intoxicada" (April 12, 2019):
I was interviewed about disinformation in social media regarding poticial elections (in Spanish).
"El desarrollo de software no se parece a la construcción, se parece a la alta cocina" (March 13, 2019):
New entry in the blog (in Spanish).

MERA: A Musical Entities Reconciliation Architecture Based on Semantic Technologies (September 26, 2017):
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)
An Ethical Inquiry into Youth Suicide Prevention Using Social Media Mining (September 1, 2017):
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.
Social Media Won't Free Us (August, 2017):
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.
Reconstruction of a free-standing sculpture using SfM (March 8, 2017):
A student and I have been working on the reconstruction of one sculpture using Structured from Motion methods.

Politics and Social Media (December 7, 2016):
I'm giving away my book on politics and social media.
Social Media and Authoritarianism (December 1, 2016):
Social media is not a democracy catalyzer, it can be exploited by authoritarian regimes to their advantage and, what's more, Western countries are slipping to authoritarian manners regarding social media.
Release of TwitterTooddler (October 28, 2016):
I've developed a Twitter Historical Archive covering March 2006-July 2009. It contains about 1.5 billion tweets, the whole public timeline of that period.
Reconstruction of a pre-romanesque church using SfM (May 26, 2016):
A group of students and myself have been working on the reconstruction of San Julian de los Prados using Structured from Motion methods.
You should have put a preprint on it... (January 26, 2016):
Blog post about the benefits of releasing your research as preprints.

La opinión de Twitter no es la opinión pública (December 10, 2015):
Invited post (in Spanish) at Rasgo Latente, a collaborative blog about Psychology.
Big data y medios sociales (November 18, 2015):
I delivered a talk during the XV Science Week at the University of Oviedo.
Social Media, Democracy, and Democratization (June 26, 2015):
Invited piece published in IEEE Multimedia.
What do we mean when we talk about Twitter political opinion? (June 26, 2015):
Invited post at The Plot, a blog published by the European Political Science Association (EPSA) and Cambridge University Press.
"TED^x OviedoUniversity" (March 21, 2015):
I took part speaking about social media, democracy and democratization (in Spanish).
"Twitter - A Digital Socioscope" (January 1, 2015):
A book to be published by Cambridge University Press and edited by Yelena Mejova, Ingmar Weber and Michael Macy. I've contributed Chapter 2 "Political Opinion".

"El impacto del Big Data en la Empresa" (November 12, 2014):
I took part on a seminar organized by Fundación Ramón Areces and Club Última hora and hosted by the University of the Balearic Islands.
RNE - Informativo de Asturias (October 7, 2014):
Radio interview about social media (in Spanish).
"Directos al mediodía" (RTPA) (September 4, 2014):
Interview in a regional TV program about the cloud, the "Celebgate" and privacy issues (in Spanish).
"Big Data, Twitter, opinión pública y mercados" (July 3, 2014):
Lecture about Big Data, Twitter and public opinion delivered during a seminar on Big Data organized by Fundación Ramón Areces (in Spanish).