SANTAGIUSTINA Carlo Romano Marcello Alessandro

Current positions

Assistant Professor, Venice School of Management, Ca’ Foscari University (Jan. 2022- ongoing)

Research Collaborator, MUHAI H2020 EU project, Venice International University (Sep. 2019 - ongoing) https://muhai.org/

Short Bio

Carlo R. M. A. Santagiustina is currently Assistant Professor [SECS-P/08] of Research Methods at the Venice School of Management. He has obtained his PhD in Economics at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 2018. His main research interests are digital methods for management and economic research, online impression and reputation management (with respect to remote work, WFH, WFA), media studies (social media data analysis and analytics), behavioural economics (risk perception, uncertainty and related biases), applied statistics (ML, Prob. Graph. Models) and computational linguistics (NLP, IE, text mining). He published, among others, on Economics Letters, Finance Research Letters, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A (Statistics in Society), and PloS ONE.

Previous positions

Postdoc, ISEED H2020 EU project, Dept. of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University (Jun. 2021 - Dec. 2021) https://iseedeurope.eu/

Postdoc, Venice School of Management, Ca’ Foscari University (May 2019 - Apr. 2021)

Adjunct Professor of “Behavioural Economics”, Dept. of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University (Feb. 2019 - Feb. 2022)

Graduate studies/education

PhD in Economics, Dept. of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University (2018)

Master’s Degree in Economics & Management (with honors: “110 e Lode”), Dept. of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University (2014)

Non-academic services & connections with practice

Research collaboration with CISCO and Venywhere for a PON project (Innovation and Competitiveness for the Green and Digital Transition) about remote work from Venice (Jan 2022 - ongoing)

Scientific supervisor and responsible for the methods and technology of the AquaGranda citizen-science project and its digital archive (Sep. 2019 - ongoing) https://aquagrandainvenice.it

Research collaboration with GAM Investments for a postdoc project about uncertainty indexes based on social media data (May 2019 - Apr. 2021)

Funding & research projects

SoMe4Dem Horizon EU project, GA No. 101094752 (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), co-author and signatory of the proposal

ISEED Horizon EU project, GA No. 960366 (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), co-author and signatory of the proposal

Research interests

SH1_10: Management & organizational behaviour  

SH1_7: Behavioural economics             

PE6_11: Machine learning and statistical data processing     

SH3_13: Digital social research

SH3_12: Communication and information, networks, media

International experiences, visitings & appointments

Visiting Researcher, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Jan. 2019)

Visiting Researcher, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam (Jan.-Jun. 2017, Oct. 2019, and Jan. 2020)

Selected talks & conferences

July 24, 2022, presentation of the paper "Towards conflictual narrative mechanics" at the "Semantic Techniques for Narrative-based Understanding" session of the conference IJCAI-ECAI 2022, Vienna, Austria

September 14, 2021, presentation titled "Thinking and narrating like a social scientist: How economists conceptualise and discuss socio-economic inequalities" at the FCG OFFSITE meeting, organized by Sony CSL Paris and the VUB Artificial Intelligence Lab, Manoir de l’Essonne, Paris, France

December 12, 2020, presentation of the paper "Filtering the intensity of public concern from social media count data with jumps" at the (EC)^2 conference, Paris, France

June 6, 2018, presentation of the Twitter Uncertainty Indexes at a GAM Investments event, LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, Lugano, Switzerland

March 10, 2017, presentation titled "Mapping troll-like practices on Twitter" at the Fake News Data Sprint, Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Selected publications

Santagiustina, C. R. M. A., and Warglien, M. (2022). «The architecture of partisan debates: The online controversy on the no-deal Brexit». PLoS ONE, 17(6), e0270236

Iacopini, M. and Santagiustina, C.R.M.A. (2021). «Filtering the intensity of public concern from social media count data with jumps». Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 184, p. 1283-1302. DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12704

Costola, M., Iacopini, M. and Santagiustina, C.R.M.A. (2021). «Google search volumes and the financial markets during the COVID-19 outbreak». Finance Research Letters, 42, p. 101884. DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2020.101884

Costola, M., Iacopini, M. and Santagiustina, C.R.M.A. (2021). «On the “mementum” of meme stocks». Economics Letters, 207, p. 110021. DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.110021

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