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- 2018 “The Contagion Effects of Repeated Activation in Social Networks”, with Pablo Piedrahita, Javier Borge-Holthoefer, and Yamir Moreno, Social Networks, 54, 326-335 [arXiv] | [open access]
- 2017 “Digital News Consumption and Copyright Intervention: Evidence from Spain Before and After the 2015 ‘Link Tax’”, with Sílvia Majó-Vázquez and Ana S. Cardenal, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication | [open access]
- 2016 “The Dynamic of Information-Driven Coordination Phenomena: a Transfer Entropy Analysis”, with Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Nicola Perra, Bruno Gonçalves, Alex Arenas, Yamir Moreno, and Alessandro Vespignani, Science Advances, v. 2, n. 4 | [open access]
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- 2014 “The Emergence of Roles in Large-Scale Networks of Communication”, with Ning Wang and Javier Borge-Holthoefer, EPJ Data Science, 3:32 [Open Access]
- 2014 “Assessing the Bias in Samples of Large Online Networks”, with Ning Wang, Alejandro Rivero, Javier Borge-Holthoefer and Yamir Moreno, Social Networks, 38(1), 16-27 | [ScienceDirect]
- 2013 “Big Data and the Fabric of Human Geography”, Dialogues in Human Geography,3(3), 292-296 | [Sage Online]
- 2013 “Diffusion Dynamics with Changing Network Composition”, with Raquel A. Baños, Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Ning Wang, and Yamir Moreno, Entropy (special issue Social Networks and Information Diffusion) | [mdpi]
- 2013 “Social Science in the Era of Big Data”, Policy & Internet, 5(2):147-160 | [SSRN preprint] | [Wiley Online]
- 2013 “Cascading Behaviour in Complex Socio-Technical Networks”, with Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Raquel Baños, and Yamir Moreno, Journal of Complex Networks | [SSRN preprint] | [OUP Online]
- 2013 “The Effects of Social Interactions on Fertility Decline in Nineteenth-Century France: An Agent-Based Simulation Experiment”, with Tommy E. Murphy, Population Studies, 67(2):135-155 | [Taylor & Francis] | [IGIER WP]
- 2013 “Broadcasters and Hidden Influentials in Online Protest Diffusion”, with Javier Borge-Holthoefer and Yamir Moreno, American Behavioral Scientist, 57(7):943-965 |[Sage Online] | [SSRN preprint]
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- 2011 “The Dynamics of Protest Recruitment through an Online Network”, with Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Alejandro Rivero and Yamir Moreno, Scientific Reports | [open access]
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- 2020 “El Consumo de Noticias en Internet y en Redes Sociales en España”, with Silvia Majó-Vázquez, in Informe sobre la Democracia en España, Madrid: Fundación Alternativas.
- 2019 “Social Media Data: Quanitative Analysis”, with Subhayan Mukerjee, in Atkinson, P. A. (ed) SAGE Research Methods Foundations, London: Sage.
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- 2017 “Scale, Time and Activity Patterns: Advanced Methods for the Analysis of Online Networks”, with Javier Borge-Holthoefer, in Fielding, N., Lee, R., and Blank, G. (eds). Handbook of Online Research Methods, Thousand Oaks: Sage | [SageOnline] | [SSRN preprint]
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- 2014 “The Spanish ‘Indignados’ Movement: Time Dynamics, Geographical Distribution, and Recruitment Mechanisms”, with Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Alejandro Rivero and Yamir Moreno, forthcoming in Agarwal, N., Lim, M., and Wigand, R. (eds) Online Collective Action: Dynamics of the Crowd in Social Media, NY: Springer
- 2020 Review of Frenemies: How Social Media Polarizes America, by Jaime E. Settle, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly.
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- 2017 “Even Imperfect Algorithms Can Improve the Criminal Justice System. A Way to Combat the Capricious and Biased Nature of Human Decisions”, The New York Times, with Sam Corbett-Davies and Sharad Goel, December 20.
- 2016 “Could online ‘slacktivists’ actually help Making a Murderer’s Steven Avery?”, The Conversation, January 11.
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- 2013 “The Dynamics of Information Diffusion in the Turkish Protests”, with Pablo Parberá, The Monkey Cage June 9
- 2013 “15M, ¿nos vemos en las redes?”, Piedras de Papel, eldiario.es, May 14
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