Barcelona Media. Centre d'Innovació.

David Laniado

Research interests
Social networks, online collaboration, online discussions, Social Semantic Web

Experience
October 2010 - present: Researcher at Barcelona Media
April 2010 - October 2010: Intern at Barcelona Media
Nov. 2009 - March 2010: Intern at Yahoo! research Barcelona
2007 - 2009: Lecturer, teaching assistent at Politecnico di Milano

Education
2008 - 2012: PhD in Information Engineering at Politecnico di Milano
2004 - 2007: MSc in Computer Science at Politecnico di Milano
2000 - 2003: BSc in Computer Science at Politecnico di Milano

Google Scholar profile

Work in progress

• Andreas Kaltenbrunner and David Laniado (2012). There is No Deadline - Time Evolution of Wikipedia Discussions. Arxiv preprint arXiv:1204.3453
• Pablo Aragon, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, David Laniado and Yana Volkovich (2012). Biographical Social Networks on Wikipedia - A cross-cultural study of links that made history. Arxiv preprint arXiv:1204.3799.
• David Laniado, Carlos Castillo, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Mayo Fuster-Morell. Emotions and dialogue in a peer-production community: the case of Wikipedia. Submitted for review.
• Jessica J. Gould, David Laniado, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Karolin Kappler, Yana Volkovich, Pablo Aragon. Jointly they edit: Examining the impact of community identification on political interaction in Wikipedia. Abstract presented at International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNIA) Sunbelt Conference, Redondo Beach, CA, March 2012.
• Pablo Aragon, Karolin Kappler, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Jessica Gould, David Laniado and Yana Volkovich. Tweeting the Campaign: Evaluation of Political Party Strategies in Twitter for the 2011 Spanish National Elections. Abstract accepted at Internet, Politics, Policy 2012, Oxford, UK, September 2012.
• Pablo Aragón, Jessica Gould, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Karolin Kappler, David Laniado, Yana Volkovich. Real Counter Power or a Digital Bubble? A Case Study of the 15O-Movement. Abstract accepted at Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Conference, Barcelona, Spain, June 2012.

Publications

• Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Salvatore Scellato, Yana Volkovich, David Laniado, Dave Currie, Erik J. Jutemar, Cecilia Mascolo. Far from the eyes, close on the Web: impact of geographic distance on online social interactions. WOSN '12 - ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks, Helsinki, Finland. August 2012.
• Yana Volkovich, Salvatore Scellato, David Laniado, Cecilia Mascolo and Andreas Kaltenbrunner (2012). The length of bridge ties: structural and geographic properties of online social interactions. ICWSM '12 - 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Dublin, Ireland, June 2012.
• Pablo Aragón, Jessica Gould, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Karolin Kappler, David Laniado, Ricardo Ruiz de Querol, Carlos Ullod and Yana Volkovich (2012). Bridging the Gap: A Reflection on an Interdisciplinary Approach to Social Media Research. Web Science track, 21th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2012), Lyon, France, April 2012.
• David Laniado, Riccardo Tasso, Yana Volkovich and Andreas Kaltenbrunner (2011). When the Wikipedians Talk: Network and Tree Structure of Wikipedia Discussion Pages. ICWSM '11 - 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Barcelona, Spain, July 2011.
• David Laniado and Riccardo Tasso (2011). Co-authorship 2.0 : Patterns of collaboration in Wikipedia. HT '11 - 22nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia. Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 2011.
• Jacopo Farina, Riccardo Tasso and David Laniado (2011). Automatically assigning Wikipedia articles to macro-categories. HT '11 - 22nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 2011.
• David Laniado and Peter Mika (2010). Making sense of Twitter. ISWC 2010: International Semantic Web Conference. Shanghai, China, November 2010.
• Alexandre Monnin, Freddy Limpens, Fabien Gandon and David Laniado (2010). Speech acts meet tagging : NiceTag ontology. I-SEMANTICS '10: 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems. Graz, Austria, September 2010.
• Freddy Limpens, Alexandre Monnin, David Laniado and Fabien Gandon (2009). Nicetag ontology : tags as named graphs. SNI '09: 1st International Workshop on Social Networks Interoperability. Shanghai, China, December 2009.
• David Laniado and Davide Eynard and Marco Colombetti (2007). Using WordNet to turn a folksonomy into a hierarchy of concepts. SWAP '07 - Semantic Web Application and Perspectives. Bari, Italy, December 2007.
• David Laniado and Davide Eynard and Marco Colombetti (2007). A semantic tool to support navigation in a folksonomy. HT ‘07 - 18th conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia. Manchester, UK, September 2007.

Program Committee membership

• 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2012)
• 23th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT 2012)
• Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge (WPAC 2012)
• Tutorials at the 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012)
• Organizing Committee for the First International Workshop on Social Innovation and Social Media (SISoM 2011), in conjunction with ICWSM2011 (manifesto)