ARS'25 Tenth International Workshop on Social Network Analysis (30-31 ottobre 2025)

ARS'25 Tenth International Workshop on Social Network Analysis

from giovedì 30 ottobre 2025 (08:00) to venerdì 31 ottobre 2025 (20:00)
Naples (Italy)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

30 ott 2025

31 ott 2025

08:30	Registration (until 09:30) ()
09:30	Welcome Coffee (until 10:00) ()
10:00	Opening ceremony (until 10:30) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
10:30	Networks in culture, culture in networks (until 11:00) (Room G1)
10:30	Collaboration, Centrality, and Cultural Themes in Italian Hip-Hop: A Network Perspective - Stefano Oricchio (Università di Napoli Federico II) (Room G1)
10:45	Power, Status, and the Cultural Track of Social Action: Extending Elementary Theory - Pamela Emanuelson (North Dakota State University) (Room G1)
10:30	Novel Approaches in Statistical Network Modeling and their Applications (until 11:15) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
10:30	Exploring World Trade Networks - Vladimir Batagelj (IMFM, Ljubljana) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
10:45	Dynamic stochastic block models for the analysis of weighted network data - Silvia Pandolfi (Università degli Studi di Perugia) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
11:00	Estimation of Dynamic Network Actor Models on Incomplete Data - Maria Eugenia Gil Pallares (ETH Zurich) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
10:30	YoungARS (until 11:30) (Room "Compagna")
10:30	Deal or no deal: Investigating illicit firearms trafficking on Telegram through crime scripting and social network analysis - Fenna van der Wijk (University of Groningen) (Room "Compagna")
10:45	ThemeScope: A Scalable Strategy for Mapping Social Representations in Digital Discourse - Luca D'Aniello (Dept. of Economics and Statistics - University of Naples Federico II) (Room "Compagna")
11:00	Signed Networks and Polarization in Online Political Discourse: Evidence from the 2024 European Elections in Italy - Amin Gino Fabbrucci Barbagli (University of Trieste) (Room "Compagna")
11:15	Emergence of scaling and organization in microblogging platforms: the emblematic examples of BlueSky and Truth Social - Tommaso Bertola (University of Padua) (Room "Compagna")
11:30	Criminal networks (until 12:30) (Room G1)
11:30	A Theory of Competition and Cooperation between Organized Crime Groups - Andrea Giovannetti (Australian Catholic University) (Room G1)
11:45	Ties to Trust: Unveiling Patterns of Collaboration in ‘Ndrangheta Clans - Caterina Paternoster (Bocconi University) (Room G1)
12:00	Social Network Analysis and Corruption - Fabrizio Sbicca (Autorità Nazionale Anticorruzione) (Room G1)
12:15	Numerical taxonomy of criminal groups - Peter Carrington (University of Waterloo) (Room G1)
11:30	Networks of Hate: Analysing User and Language Patterns in Racist Discourse (until 12:15) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
11:30	Enhancing Sentiment Analysis Using Formal Linguistic Tools - Mario Monteleone (Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e della Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Salerno; X23 Science in Society, Bergamo.) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
11:45	Latent attitudes and their correlations on Semantic Networks - Alex Cucco (University "G. d’Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
12:00	Identity, and counter-narratives in the digital space - Melissa Vassallo (G. d’Annunzio University Chieti-Pescara) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
11:30	YoungARS (until 12:15) (Room "Compagna")
11:30	A logistic actor-attribute latent space model for social influence - Noemi Corsini (University of Cambridge) (Room "Compagna")
11:45	Beyond Linearity: Relational Hyper Event Models with Time-Varying Non-Linear Effects - Martina Boschi (Università della Svizzera italiana) (Room "Compagna")
12:00	Exploring In-Work Poverty through Systematic Literature Network Analysis: A Pedagogical Application of SNA in the Social Sciences - Hameem Bin Hameed (Università Carlo Cattaneo - LIUC) (Room "Compagna")

08:30	Registration (until 09:00) ()
09:00	Networks in culture, culture in networks (until 09:30) (Room "Compagna")
09:00	Revealing Folk Schemas of Musical Genre and Social Category Associations Through Relational and Geometric Methods - Omar Alcides Lizardo (UCLA) (Room "Compagna") naples-slides.html
09:15	Associational networks and the democratization of taste - Mario Diani (Room "Compagna")
09:00	Social Network Analysis in Scientometric Research (until 09:45) (Room "Pagano")
09:00	Co-authorship networks among Italian scholars: an ego-network approach - Viviana Amati (University of Milano-Bicocca) (Room "Pagano")
09:15	Mapping Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences - Ilaria Primerano (University of Salerno) (Room "Pagano")
09:30	Closer together or further apart? The Dynamics of European Scientific Collaboration Networks - Anuška Ferligoj (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana) (Room "Pagano")
09:00	Statistical approaches for clustering and community detection in complex networks (until 10:00) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
09:00	A Zero-Inflated Poisson Latent Position Cluster Model - Riccardo Rastelli (University College Dublin) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
09:15	Predicting Links in temporal Networks using a dynamic Stochastic Block Model - Luca Brusa (University of Milano-Bicocca) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
09:30	Dynamic clustering of bipartite networks via hidden Markov latent trait analyzers - Maria Francesca Marino (‪Università degli Studi di Firenze) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
09:45	Guidelines for Blockmodeling Internatonal Trad: A case stup of the first Trump administration - Fabio Ashtar Telarico (University of Ljubljana - FDV) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo) TELARICO_ARS25.pdf
10:00	Coffee Break (until 10:30) ()
10:30	KEYNOTE SPEAKER: ISABEL RAABE (until 11:30) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
11:30	Advances in personal network analysis (until 12:45) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
11:30	Kin networks in Finland - Antti Tanskanen (Population Research Institute / University of Turku) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
11:45	The Social Implications of Telework: Changes in Contact Frequency and Network Composition - Ben Scane (University of Trento) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
12:00	Personal interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from older adults in Italy - Francesco Santelli (University of Trieste) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
12:15	How Formal and Informal Collaborations shape Academic Performance in Italy - Rosario Giuseppe D'agata (University of Catania) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
12:30	The effects of personal networks and social context characteristics on loneliness and perceived isolation - Minsu Jang (University of Milano-Bicocca) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
11:30	Inequalities in Education: The Role of Schools, Peers, and Transitions (until 12:45) (Room "Compagna")
11:30	From high school to university: Assessing inequalities and peer's influence in students' performance and choices - Isabella Sulis (Università di Cagliari) (Room "Compagna")
11:45	Peer effects and educational choices: a theoretical framework - Nadia Crescenzo (University of Salerno) (Room "Compagna")
12:00	Unequal Paths: Student Mobility in Higher Education during COVID-19 - Vincenzo Giuseppe Genova (University of Palermo) (Room "Compagna")
12:15	The Gender Grading Gap in Italy: Heterogeneity, Trajectories, and Consequences from Large-Scale Population Student Data - Carlos J. Gil-Hernández (University of Florence) (Room "Compagna")
12:30	Pairing or peering? Exploring the impact of social networks on mathematical performance in 3rd grade schools in Milano and Napoli - Teodora Erika Uberti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) (Room "Compagna")
11:30	Methods and Applications of network analysis in multidisciplinary fields (until 12:45) (Room "Pagano")
11:30	Organizational successions in industrial districts: a relational study - Flavio Barani (Room "Pagano")
11:45	Modelling Equity Cooperation and Competitive Dynamics in Italian Container Ports Using Social Network Analysis - Marcella De Martino (Institute for Research on Innovation and Services for Development (IRISS)-CNR, Italy) (Room "Pagano")
12:00	The impact of social influence on rural South African youths’ sexual health: a community-based sociocentric network analysis - Dorottya Hoor (University College London) (Room "Pagano")
12:15	Introducing Weighted Triad Census through Peeling algorithm. An application to Football Passing Networks - Roberto Rondinelli (Room "Pagano")
12:30	Analysing attributed network: a DISTATIS-Based approach - Valeria Policastro (Room "Pagano")

12:30	Lunch (until 14:00) ()
14:00	KEYNOTE SPEAKER: GIANLUCA MANZO (until 15:00) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
15:00	Network strategies, welfare, and community (until 15:45) (Room G1)
15:00	Reconstructing the emergence of charitable food provision fields through event sequence analysis: opportunities, challenges, and synergies with recent developments in longitudinal network analysis - Alejandro Ciordia (Maastricht University) (Room G1)
15:15	Social network analysis for construction, monitoring and evaluation of policies of anti-violence against women. Some reflections from analysis of three case studies in Italy. - Antonietta Riccardo (CNR- Irpps) (Room G1)
15:30	Informal Inter-organizational networks facing labor exploitation: Capitanata (FG) Case Study. - Erika Carlucci (Università di Pisa) (Room G1)
15:00	Novel Approaches in Statistical Network Modeling and their Applications (until 15:30) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
15:00	Taboo Ties: How Social Structure Constrains and Enables Ties of Friendship and Romance - Johan Koskinen (Stockholm University) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
15:15	Where Do Statisticians Go? The Mobility network of the Italian Academic Statisticians. - Amin Gino Fabbrucci Barbagli (University of Trieste) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
15:00	YoungARS (until 15:45) (Room "Compagna")
15:00	Digital Mood Swing: The Emotional Consequences of Algorithmic Engagement in Online Spaces - Raunak Mishra (University of Greenwich) (Room "Compagna")
15:15	AI and the Reproduction of Social Inequalities: Exploring Bias, Access, and Digital Power Structures in the Modern Era - Thamaraikani Chandrasooden (University of Greenwich) (Room "Compagna")
15:30	Mapping Cognitive Convergence: A Network Perspective on Institutional Influence and Sectoral Trajectories in Quantum-AI Research for Cybersecurity Innovation - Guru Krishna Ramakrishnan (University of Greenwich) (Room "Compagna")
15:45	Coffee Break (until 16:15) ()
16:15	Network strategies, welfare, and community (until 17:00) (Room G1)
16:15	Informal networks and community interventions in Uzbekistan - Deniza Alieva (Management Development Institute of Singapore in Tashkent) (Room G1)
16:30	Mapping Relational Energy Networks: Social Network Analysis of Positively Energizing Leadership and Employee Well-being in Irish Organizations - Kristina Vigna (University of Bolonga) (Room G1)
16:45	Comparing social support networks among older adults during and after the pandemic - Marjan Cugmas (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana) (Room G1)
16:15	Social Network Analysis in Cybersecurity: Navigating Digital Transformation through Network Perspectives (until 16:45) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
16:15	Cybersecurity national debate in Italy: a Discourse Network Analysis - Anna Piazza (University of Greenwich) Srinidhi Vasudevan (University of Greenwich) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
16:30	Social Influence and DeFi Security: Shaping Consumer Preferences in the Digital Economy - Md Kamruzzaman Shapon (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
16:15	YoungARS (until 17:00) (Room "Compagna")
16:15	Networks matter: the role of social ties in education mobility in Italy. A personal-network study of college and mobility choices of southern Italy high school students - Cristina Loria (Room "Compagna")
16:30	Peer Networks and the Development of Soft Skills in High School: Insights from a Social Network Study - Nunzia Brancaccio (University of Salerno) (Room "Compagna")
16:45	Friendship, Motivation, and Educational Trajectories: A Multilevel Social Network Approach - Angela Pacca (Dept. of Statistics, Computer Science, Applications "Giuseppe Parenti", University of Florence,) (Room "Compagna")
16:45	Network Models for Complex Phenomena in Music, Sport, and Psychology (until 17:45) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
16:45	Combining clustering techniques and Bayesian network modelling to explore the complex relationship between adolescents’ well-being and social media use - Chiara Brombin (Faculty of Psychology and University Center For Statistics in the Biomedical Sciences (CUSSB), Vita-Salute San Raffaele University) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
17:00	Feedback dynamics in heterosexual matching drive differential strategies in mate selection - Alexandros Gelastopoulos (Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
17:15	Assessing competitive balance in the English premier league using a stochastic block model - Ioannis Ntzoufras (Athens University of Economics and Business) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
17:30	A Network Analysis of Success at the Eurovision Song Contest - Alessia Morrone (University of Calabria) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
17:00	Social Network Analysis in Scientometric Research (until 17:45) (Room G1)
17:00	Toward a Network Analysis of Digital Humanities Discourse - Guido Conaldi (University of Greenwich) (Room G1)
17:15	Future expectations and multidisciplinary efforts in space research. A network analysis of the scientific literature on Bioregenerative Life Support Systems - Marco Serino (University of Naples Federico II) (Room G1)
17:30	Bridging Structural Holes and Islands: A Scientometric Approach to Mapping Innovation in Social Science Methodology - Maria Carmela Catone (University of Salerno) (Room G1)
17:00	YoungARS (until 18:00) (Room "Compagna")
17:00	Social Network Inequalities and Health: The Role of Socioeconomic Status, Urbanization, and Migration in Italy - Erika Grammatica (University of Milano-Bicocca) (Room "Compagna")
17:15	Optimisation of police resources in commercial areas of Bogotá: geospatial and strategic analysis of vulnerabilities - Miguel Feles (Student) (Room "Compagna") ARS25_MiguelFeles.pdf
17:30	Inter-Organisational Networks for Post-Disaster Recovery. An Integrative Review. - Lavinia Damaschin (University of Groningen) (Room "Compagna")
17:45	Tracing the Trajectories: Publication Patterns of Russian Mathematicians - Anna Semenova (HSE University) (Room "Compagna")
20:00	Social dinner (until 23:00) ()

12:45	Lunch (until 14:15) ()
14:15	KEYNOTE SPEAKER: ANNA PIAZZA (until 15:15) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
15:15	ROUND TABLE (until 16:15) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
16:15	Closing ceremony (until 16:45) (Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Festo)
16:45	Farewell Coffee (until 17:30) ()

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