Research topics, available both for a Bachelor’s or a Master’s thesis:
- Analysis of the effects of content moderation and developing of an intervention on Reddit/Bluesky
- Biases and persuasion capabilities of LLMs
Papers:
- Cima, L., Mannocci, L., Avvenuti, M., Tesconi, M., & Cresci, S. (2024). Coordinated behavior in information operations on Twitter. IEEE Access.
- Cima, L., Trujillo, A., Avvenuti, M., & Cresci, S. (2024). The Great Ban: Efficacy and unintended consequences of a massive deplatforming operation on Reddit. In Companion Publication of the 16th ACM Web Science Conference (pp. 85-93).
- Cima, L., Miaschi, A., Trujillo, A., Avvenuti, M., Dell’Orletta, F., & Cresci, S. (2025). Contextualized counterspeech: Strategies for adaptation, personalization, and evaluation. In Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025 (pp. 5022-5033).
- Giorgi, T., Cima, L., Fagni, T., Avvenuti, M., & Cresci, S. (2025). Human and LLM biases in hate speech annotations: A socio-demographic analysis of annotators and targets. In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (Vol. 19, pp. 653-670).
- Cima, L., Tessa, B., Cresci, S., Trujillo, A., & Avvenuti, M. (2025). Investigating the heterogenous effects of a massive content moderation intervention via Difference-in-Differences. Online Social Networks and Media.
- Tessa, B., Cima, L., Trujillo, A., Avvenuti, M., & Cresci, S. (2024). Beyond Trial-and-Error: Predicting User Abandonment After a Moderation Intervention. arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.14846.
- Ricco, E., Cima, L., & Di Pietro, R. (2025). Hallucination Detection: A Probabilistic Framework Using Embeddings Distance Analysis. arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.08663.
Theses: Supervisor of 12 bachelor theses and 2 master theses