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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]
- 2012 “Emotions, Public Opinion and U.S. Presidential Approval Rates: A 5 Year Analysis of Online Political Discussions”, with Andreas Kaltenbrunner and Rafael E. Banchs, Human Communication Research, 38(2): 121-143 | [HCR]
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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]
- 2010 “The Structure of Political Discussion Networks: A Model for the Analysis of Online Deliberation” with Andreas Kaltenbrunner and Rafael E. Banchs, Journal of Information Technology, 25 (2): 230-243 [palgrave]
- 2009 “Traps on the Web: the Impact of Economic Resources and Traditional News Media on Online Traffic Flow”, Information, Communication and Society, 12 (8): 1140-1173 [Taylor & Francis]
- 2009 “Opening the Black Box of Link Formation: Social Factors Underlying the Structure of the Web”, Social Networks, 31(4): 271-280 [ScienceDirect]
- 2019 “Social Media Data: Quanitative Analysis”, with Subhayan Mukerjee, in Atkinson, P. A. (ed) SAGE Research Methods Foundations, London: Sage.
- 2018 “Digital News and the Consumption of Political Information”, with Silvia Majó-Vázquez, in Dutton, W.H. and Graham, M. (eds) Society and the Internet, 2nd Edition. Oxford: OUP, forthcoming.
- 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]
- 2016 “Semantic Networks and the Analysis of Public Opinion”, with Sijia Yang, forthcoming in Victor, J.N., Lubell, M., and Montgomery, A.H. (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Political Networks, Oxford: Oxford University Press. | [Oxford Handbooks Online]
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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
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- Langrock, I., and González-Bailón, S. (2019). “Bridging the Gender Divide in Wikipedia: A Computational Approach to Assessing the Impact of Two Feminist Interventions on Wikipedia”.
- 2019 Review of Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age, by Matthew J. Salganik, Journal of Mathematical Sociology. [Review]
- 2015 Review of Networked. The New Social Operating System, by Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman, Information, Communication, & Society.
- 2014 Review of Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think, by Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Information Polity, 19 [IOS press]
- 2012 Review of Everything is Obvious* Once you Know the Answer by Duncan J. Watts, Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas,v. 137, n. 1 [Spanish]
- 2008 Review of Network Power. The Social Dynamics of Globalization by David Singh Grewal, Primera Revista Latinoamericana de Libros, n. 6 [Spanish]
- 2006 Review of On Sociology by J.H. Goldthorpe and Social Mechanisms edited by P. Hedström and R.S. Swedberg, Papers. Revista de Sociología, n. 80 [Spanish]
- 2003 Review of Dynamic Social Network Modelling and Analysis: Workshop Summary and Papers edited by Ronald Breiger, Kathleen Carley and Philippa Pattison, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, v. 6, n. 4 [JASS]
- 2018 “Want to Change Facebook? Don’t Delete your Account—Use it for Good”, Quartz, with Ashley Gorham, April 4.
- 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.
- 2015 “Why everyone in a network is important for movements – even the Slacktivists!”, The Washington Post, Monkey Cage, November 30.
- 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
- 2013 “From Chiapas to Tahrir: Networks and the Diffusion of Protest”, World Politics Review, April 16
- 2012 “Where did the Revolution Go?”, Al Jazeera English, April 6