Fabiana Zollo

Fabiana Zollo is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics and Research Fellow in the Center for the Humanities & Social Change at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Her research investigates (mis)information spreading on online social media, with a special focus on the dynamics of polarization and intolerance, and the evolution of collective narratives. She collected several papers on the topic, both with national and international co-authors. She is Principal Investigator of EU H2020 project QUEST on quality and effectiveness of science communication, and of EU REC project IMSyPP on innovative systems for monitoring and preventing online hate speech. Since 2019, she is serving as an External Expert to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Since April 2020, she is a member of the Task Force “Data Science” established by AGCOM, the Italian Authority for Communication Guarantees. She is also a member of the Working Group established by the Italian Presidency of Council to study the phenomenon of disinformation on COVID-19. Her research results have been widely covered by the media (among the others: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Bloomberg View, The Guardian, Phys.org, El Pais) and disseminated internationally (Le Scienze, Pour La Science, Spektrum, Scientific American, Investigatión y Ciencia).

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1. Schmidt, A. L., Peruzzi, A., Scala, A., Cinelli, M., Pomerantsev, P., Applebaum, A., Fusi, N., Gaston, S., Peterson, Z., Severgnini, G., de Cesco, A., Casati, D., Kralj Novak, P., Stanley, H. E., Zollo, F., and Quattrociocchi, W., Nature Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, ISSN: 2662-9992.
2. Cinelli, M., Brugnoli, E., Schmidt, A.L., Zollo, F., Quattrociocchi, W. & Scala, A. (2020) Selective Exposure shapes the Facebook News Diet. PLoS ONE 15(3): e0229129.
3. Cinelli, M., Conti, M., Finos, L., Grisolia, F., Kralj Novak, P., Peruzzi, A., Tesconi, M., Zollo, F. & Quattrociocchi, W. (2019). (Mis)Information Operations: An Integrated Perspective. The Journal of Information Warfare, 18(2), 83-98.
4. Del Vicario, M., Quattrociocchi, W., Scala, A., & Zollo, F. (2019). Polarization and fake news: Early warning of potential misinformation targets. ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), 13(2), 10.
5. Peruzzi, A., Zollo, F., Schmidt, A.L., & Quattrociocchi, W. From confirmation bias to echo-chambers: A data-driven approach. In Sociologia e Politiche Sociali, 3/2018, pp. 47-74, doi:10.3280/SP2018-003004
6. Peruzzi, A., Zollo, F., Quattrociocchi, W., & Scala, A. (2018). How News May Affect Markets’ Complex Structure: The Case of Cambridge Analytica. Entropy, 20(10), 765.
7. Schmidt, A. L., Zollo, F., Scala, A., Betsch, C., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2018). Polarization of the vaccination debate on Facebook. Vaccine, 36(25), 3606-3612.
8. Zollo, F., Bessi, A., Del Vicario, M., Scala, A., Caldarelli, G., Shekhtman, L., Havlin, S., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2017). Debunking in a world of tribes. PloS one, 12(7), e0181821.
9. Del Vicario, M., Zollo, F., Caldarelli, G., Scala, A., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2017). Mapping social dynamics on Facebook: The Brexit debate. Social Networks, 50, 6-16.
10. Schmidt, A. L., Zollo, F., Del Vicario, M., Bessi, A., Scala, A., Caldarelli, G., Stanley, H.E., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2017). Anatomy of news consumption on Facebook. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(12), 3035-3039.
11. Del Vicario, M., Vivaldo, G., Bessi, A., Zollo, F., Scala, A., Caldarelli, G., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2016). Echo chambers: Emotional contagion and group polarization on Facebook. Scientific reports, 6, 37825.
12. Bessi, A., Petroni, F., Del Vicario, M., Zollo, F., Anagnostopoulos, A., Scala, A., Caldarelli, G., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2016). Homophily and polarization in the age of misinformation. The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 225(10), 2047-2059.
13. Bessi, A., Zollo, F., Del Vicario, M., Puliga, M., Scala, A., Caldarelli, G., Uzzi, B., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2016). Users polarization on Facebook and YouTube. PloS one, 11(8), e0159641.
14. Del Vicario, M., Bessi, A., Zollo, F., Petroni, F., Scala, A., Caldarelli, G., Stanley, H.E., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2016). The spreading of misinformation online. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(3), 554-559.
15. Zollo, F., Novak, P. K., Del Vicario, M., Bessi, A., Mozetič, I., Scala, A., Caldarelli, G., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2015). Emotional dynamics in the age of misinformation. PloS one, 10(9), e0138740.
16. Bessi, A., Zollo, F., Del Vicario, M., Scala, A., Caldarelli, G., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2015). Trend of Narratives in the Age of Misinformation. PloS one, 10(8), e0134641.