People
Yelena Mejova
Senior Research Scientist
Senior Research Scientist
Fields Of StudyComputational Social Science, Digital Epidemiology, Sociology, Political Science, Social Media
Publications
Towards a global impact-based forecasting model for tropical cyclones
Mersedeh Kooshki Forooshani, Marc van den Homberg, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Yelena Mejova, Leonardo Milano, Pauline Ndirangu, Daniela Paolotti, Aklilu Teklesadik, Monica L. Turner
Natural Hazards Earth System Sciences24(1), 309–329 (2024)
Political context of the European vaccine debate on Twitter
Giordano Paoletti, Lorenzo Dall'Amico, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Jacopo Lenti, Yelena Mejova, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Starnini, Michele Tizzani
Scientific Reports 14, 4397 (2024)
The Thin Ideology of Populist Advertising on Facebook during the 2019 EU Elections
Arthur Capozzi, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Yelena Mejova, Corrado Monti, André Panisson
WWW '23: Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023 2852–2862 (2023)
Leave no Place Behind: Improved Geolocation in Humanitarian Documents
Enrico Belliardo, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Yelena Mejova
GoodIT '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good 31-39 (2023)
Impact of food-related conflicts on self-reported food insecurity
Stefania Fiandrino, Caitriona Dowd, Giulia Martini, Yelena Mejova, Elisa Omodei , Daniela Paolotti, Michele Tizzani
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems7, 1239992 (2023)
Global Misinformation Spillovers in the Vaccination Debate Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Multilingual Twitter Study
Jacopo Lenti, Yelena Mejova, Kyriaki Kalimeri, André Panisson, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Tizzani, Michele Starnini
JMIR Infodemiology3:e44714, (2023)
Gender in the disclosure of loneliness on Twitter during COVID-19 lockdowns
Yelena Mejova, Anya Hommadova Lu
Frontiers in Digital Health5, 297983 (2023)
Echo Chambers of Vaccination Hesitancy Discussion on Social Media during COVID-19 Pandemic
Yelena Mejova, Giuseppe Crupi, Jacopo Lenti, Michele Tizzani, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Daniela Paolotti, André Panisson
Proceedings: XX ISA World Congress of Sociology - Melbourne, Australia June 25-July 1, 2023224.3, (2023)
Comfort Foods and Community Connectedness: Investigating Diet Change during COVID-19 Using YouTube Videos on Twitter
Yelena Mejova, Lydia Manikonda
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media17(1), 602-613 (2023)
Big Social Media Twitter Data for Studying Social Connection: Case Study of Loneliness
Proceedings: XX ISA World Congress of Sociology - Melbourne, Australia June 25-July 1, 2023498.1, (2023)
Authority without Care: Moral Values behind the Mask Mandate Response
Yelena Mejova, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media17(1), 614-625 (2023)
Perceptions of FIFA Men’s World Cup 2022 Host Nation Qatar in the Twittersphere
Susan Dun, Hatim Rachdi, Shahan Ali Memon, Rohith Krishnan Pillai, Yelena Mejova, Ingmar Weber
International Journal of Sport Communication15(3), 1–10 (2022)
Modeling Political Activism around Gun Debate via Social Media
Yelena Mejova, Jisun An, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Haewoon Kwak
ACM Transactions on Social Computing5(1-4), Article No.: 2, 1–28 (2022)
Mapping urban socioeconomic inequalities in developing countries through Facebook advertising data
Simone Piaggesi, Serena Giurgola, Márton Karsai, Yelena Mejova, André Panisson, Michele Tizzoni
Frontiers in Big Data5, 1006352 (2022)
I feel you: Mixed-methods study of social support of loneliness on twitter
Yelena Mejova, Anya Hommadova Lu
Computers in Human Behavior136, 107389 (2022)
Googling for Abortion: Search Engine Mediation of Abortion Accessibility in the United States
Yelena Mejova, Tatiana Gracyk, Ronald E. Robertson
Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media2, 1-41 (2022)
Echoes through Time: Evolution of the Italian COVID-19 Vaccination Debate
Giuseppe Crupi, Yelena Mejova, Michele Tizzani, Daniela Paolotti, André Panisson
Proceedings of the Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media16(1), 102-113 (2022)
Digital Epidemiology
Handbook of Computational Social Science for Policy, SpringerChap. 15, 279–303 (2022)
Behavior Change Around an Online Health Awareness Campaign: A Causal Impact Study
Víctor Suarez-Lledó, Yelena Mejova
Frontiers in Public Health10, 857531 (2022)
All the lonely people: Effects of social isolation on self-disclosure of loneliness on Twitter
Anya Hommadova Lu, Yelena Mejova
New Media & Society (2022)
YouTubing at Home: Media Sharing Behavior Change as Proxy for Mobility Around COVID-19 Lockdowns
Yelena Mejova, Nicolas Kourtellis
WebSci '21: 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021 272–281 (2021)
Special Issue on Disinformation, Hoaxes and Propaganda within Online Social Networks and Media
Yelena Mejova, Marinella Petrocchi, Carolina Scarton
Online Social Networks and Media23, 100132 (2021)
On the interplay between educational attainment and nutrition: a spatially-aware perspective
Narges Azizi Fard, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Yelena Mejova, Rossano Schifanella
EPJ Data Science10, 18 (2021)
Developing Annotated Resources for Internal Displacement Monitoring
Fabio Poletto, Yunbai Zhang, André Panisson, Yelena Mejova, Daniela Paolotti, Sylvain Ponserre
WWW '21: Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021 136–144 (2021)
Detecting adherence to the recommended childhood vaccination schedule from user-generated content in a US parenting forum
Lorenzo Betti, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Laetitia Gauvin, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Yelena Mejova, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Starnini
PLoS Computational Biology17(4), e1008919 (2021)
Cyber Social Threats 2021: AI, Covid-19 Vaccine, Detection and Countering Strategies
Ugur Kursuncu, Jeremy Blackburn, Yelena Mejova, Megan Squire, Amit Sheth
Workshop Proceedings of the 15th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (2021)
Clandestino or Rifugiato? Anti-immigration Facebook Ad Targeting in Italy
Arthur Capozzi, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Yelena Mejova, Corrado Monti, André Panisson, Daniela Paolotti
CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems179, 1-15 (2021)
Reports of the Workshops Held at the 2020 International Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Web and Social Media
Tarek Abdelzaher, Jisun An, Marya Bazzi, Jeremy Blackburn, Ugur Kursuncu, Yelena Mejova, Jérémie Rappaz, Horacio Saggion, Panayiotis Smeros, Sanjaya Wijeratne, Ning Yu
AI Magazine41(4), 115-120 (2020)
Impact of Online Health Awareness Campaign: Case of National Eating Disorders Association
Yelena Mejova, Víctor Suarez-Lledó
Proceeding SocInfo 2020: Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series12467, 192-205 (2020)
Human Values and Digital Patterns in Physical Exercise (Extended Abstract)
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 4735-4739 (2020)
Falling into the Echo Chamber: The Italian Vaccination Debate on Twitter
Alessandro Cossard, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Yelena Mejova, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Starnini
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media14(1), 130-140 (2020)
Facebook Ads: Politics of Migration in Italy
Arthur Capozzi, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Yelena Mejova, Corrado Monti, André Panisson, Daniela Paolotti
Proceeding SocInfo 2020: Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series12467, 43-57 (2020)
Facebook Ads as a Demographic Tool to Measure the Urban-Rural Divide
Daniele Rama, Yelena Mejova, Michele Tizzoni, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Ingmar Weber
WWW '20: Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020 327-338 (2020)
Cyber Social Threats 2020 Workshop Meta-Report: COVID-19, Challenges, Methodological and Ethical Considerations
Ugur Kursuncu, Yelena Mejova, Jeremy Blackburn, Amit Sheth
Workshop Proceedings of the 14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (2020)
COVID-19 on Facebook Ads: Competing Agendas around a Public Health Crisis
COMPASS '20: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies 22-31 (2020)
Towards a global impact-based forecasting model for tropical cyclones
Mersedeh Kooshki Forooshani, Marc van den Homberg, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Yelena Mejova, Leonardo Milano, Pauline Ndirangu, Daniela Paolotti, Aklilu Teklesadik, Monica L. Turner
Natural Hazards Earth System Sciences24(1), 309–329 (2024)
Political context of the European vaccine debate on Twitter
Giordano Paoletti, Lorenzo Dall'Amico, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Jacopo Lenti, Yelena Mejova, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Starnini, Michele Tizzani
Scientific Reports 14, 4397 (2024)
The Thin Ideology of Populist Advertising on Facebook during the 2019 EU Elections
Arthur Capozzi, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Yelena Mejova, Corrado Monti, André Panisson
WWW '23: Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023 2852–2862 (2023)