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2020

• 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.

2019

• 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).

2017

• 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.

  

2016

• 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.

  

2015

• 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".
  

2014

• "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).