Dr Fabio Carrella
BA, MA, PCGE, PhD
Expertise
Current positions
Senior Research Associate
School of Psychological Science
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Protecting the Democratic Information Space in Europe
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Managing organisational unit
School of Psychological ScienceDates
01/10/2021 to 30/09/2026
Reclaiming individual autonomy and democratic discourse online: How to rebalance human and algorithmic decision making
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Description
In one corner is the online information architecture with sophisticated personalization algorithms and persuasive designs that shape people's information diets, often without their knowledge or input. In the other corner…Managing organisational unit
Department of Computer ScienceDates
01/03/2021 to 30/06/2025
Publications
Recent publications
06/04/2023IRMA: the 335-million-word Italian coRpus for studying MisinformAtion
Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
From alternative conceptions of honesty to alternative facts in communications by U.S. politicians
Nature Human Behaviour
The 'Truth Contagion' Effect in the US Political Online Debate
The 'Truth Contagion' Effect in the US Political Online Debate
Social media sharing of low quality news sources by political elites
PNAS Nexus
#Populism on Twitter : Statistical Analysis of the Correlation between Tweet Popularity and "Populist" Discursive Features
Brno Studies in English : 46(2)
