Guido Anselmi

University of Pavia | UNIPV · Department of Political and Social Sciences

The overall aim of this paper is to discuss how, and the extent to which, the entrance of financial players in urban development affects the governance of the city. To this aim, we focus on Milan, a fast-globalising city that has recently opened its real estate market to transnational capital investors, and we zoom in on two flagship projects, Port...

In this paper we seek to demonstrate how a variety of information disorder phenomena comes to be at the intersection of legacy and social media interaction. To do so, we collected more than 750.000 tweets and 30.000 news articles related to the adoption of AstraZeneca vaccine in Italy for a period of six months (1st January 2021 - 30th June 2021)....

Quali sono le geografie degli affitti brevi a Milano? Che andamento ha assunto il fenomeno negli ultimi 10 anni? Chi sono i protagonisti del mercato? Come si è regolato il settore? A partire dall’analisi del caso milanese, questo background paper mette in discussione la narrazione della condivisione legata alle piattaforme digitali degli affitti br...

Despite discourses on how digital platforms have democratized access to the market there is increasing evidence on their role in boosting concentration, as recommender algorithms and digital reputation tools usually favour a small clique of top users, this may include short term rental platforms. There is also mounting evidence regarding the produc...

The literature on the nationalization of party systems has found that decentralization of authority leads to increasing territorial heterogeneity of voting behaviour. In this article, we intend to further extant knowledge on this topic by exploring whether different levels of government imply distinct representations of party competition at the cit...

In this article, we argue that, in an era of platformization of culture, social media users tend to relate with brands through modalities that are more informed by platforms’ affordances (i.e., by the technical architecture of and participatory cultures thriving on social media platforms), rather than shared systems of values and meanings promulgat...

DANKMEMES is a shared task proposed for the 2020 EVALITA campaign, focusing on the automatic classification of Internet memes. Providing a corpus of 2.361 memes on the 2019 Italian Government Crisis, DANKMEMES features three tasks: A) Meme Detection, B) Hate Speech Identification, and C) Event Clustering. Overall, 5 groups took part in the first ta...

How pop music spreads in the hybrid media system: the role of digital platforms and broadcast media. Our research addresses the issues of the cross-media diffusion and the participatory circulation of pop music in Italy and tries to answer the following questions: Are the music industry and radio companies still endowed with the power to create con...

This article analyses the production of urban space in the globalizing city of Milan, Italy. The authors present the evolution of a 30-year development process in a semi-central area of the city known as Garibaldi Porta Nuova, contrasting present and past conditions. Initial attempts to develop the area began in the early 1980s but came to nothing;...