http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/7211 Between Infodemic and Pandemic: On-line Researches in the Time of COVID-19 2026-04-24T11:27:55Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/7159 Title: Social and Individual Processes at the Time of the COVID-19 Crisis Authors: Maiello, Giuseppe Abstract: The author presents eight studies carried out during the global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and focuses on different methodological issues to be addressed within the Digital Society and netnographic research. The studies are reported in a common context ranging from the individual experiences of researchers to the receipt of political propaganda in mass society through social media 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/7158 Title: Social Sciences Research Methods Regarding COVID-19 Pandemic. A PRISMA Systematic Review Authors: De Falco, Ciro Clemente; Romeo, Emilia Abstract: In the digital society, the traditional methods of social research for the study of so-ciety have been accompanied by innovative methodological proposals: digital and digitized methods , which are now applied to many themes. In 2020 the most de-bated topic was certainly the one concerning the Covid-19 pandemic; a “total social fact” of which not only the medical aspects have been analyzed, a substantial scien-tific production, indeed, has concerned the impacts that the pandemic itself and the measures that governments have taken to resist it has had on society. Starting from these considerations, the aim of this work is to offer an overview of the topics ana-lyzed and the research methods used to investigate this disruptive event in academ-ic research concerning the social sciences - and in particular that which focused on the Italian case - during the last year. To map the state of the art, consolidate the heterogeneous corpus of knowledge, and investigate the different methodological approaches used (tradition/digital/digitized) a methodological approach was ap-plied based on a systematic review of the literature conducted with the PRISMA method and carried out with a third type content analysis 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/7157 Title: Digital Methods to Study (and Reduce) the Impact of Disinformation Authors: Di Lisio, Miriam; Trezza, Domenico Abstract: Social media have democratized communication but have led to the explosion of the so-called "fake news" phenomenon. This problem has visible implications on global security, both political (e.g.the QANON case) and health ( anti-Covid vaccination and No-Vax fake news). Models that detect the problem in real time and on large amounts of data are needed. Digital methods and text classification procedures are able to do this through predictive approaches to identify a suspect message or author. This paper aims to apply a supervised model to the study of fake news on the Twittersphere to highlight its potential and preliminary limitations. The case study is the infodemic generated on social media during the first phase of the COVID-19 emergency. The application of the supervised model involved the use of a training and testing dataset. The different preliminary steps to build the training dataset are also shown, highlighting, with a critical approach, the challenges of working with supervised algorithms. Two aspects emerge. The first is that it is important to block the sources of bad information, before the information itself. The second is that algorithms could be sources of bias. Social media companies need to be very careful about relying on automated classification. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/7156 Title: Diaries from Isolation. Digital Testimonials' Analysis During COVID-19 Emergency Authors: Palmieri, Federica; Parola, Jessica; Sallusto Palmiero, Marco; Tofani, Roberta Abstract: The research investigates the social effects of the atypical domestic containment situation during the Covid-19 emergency in Italy. The survey, which is placed in a phenomenological perspective, shows how individuals and the community have been able to develop an adaptation or resilience process to the lockdown in order to conform their life to the “new ordinary”, making it real and purposeful. The research process, which was entirely conducted digitally through specific software for qualitative analysis, has developed dynamically, following the Grounded Theory approach. Facebook posts and Instagram audio tracks combined with newspaper articles represent the cases of the research. While on one hand, digitality has allowed an individual the perception of normality by feeling part of a community, on the other it has revealed various forms of digital divide, characterized by different levels of literacy at school, at work and domestically. The social disadvantage does not exclusively concern the digital world but rather on the lockdown that has heightened the systematic exclusion of the most fragile sections of the population. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z