CV

You can download my CV (here in PDF).

Current Appointments

• 2023–present: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
  • University of Milan
  • Project: VIPoP — The Visual Politics of Populism (PRIN 2023–2025)
  • Research focus: Computational methods for visual and textual political communication

Past appointments

• 2022–2023: Postdoctoral Researcher
  • DAPs&CO program, University of Milan
  • Research and teaching on computational methods for political science
• 2015-2019 Research Associate at REScEU \ EuVisions
  • External research associate at REScEU \ EuVisions (ERC-funded, University of Milan; PI: Prof. Maurizio Ferrera), Centro di Ricerca e Documentazione L. Einaudi.
  • Computational analysis of social media data

Education

• Ph.D. in Political Science, NASP, University of Milan, 2022
  • Dissertation on online campaigning and affective polarization during the 2019 European Parliament elections
• M.A. in Political Studies and International Relations. University of Turin, 2012, (110/110 cum laude)

Publications

Concepts and measures of bureaucratic constraints in European Union laws from hand‐coding to machine‐learning

Franchino, F. and Migliorati, M. and Pagano, G. and Vignoli, V., "Concepts and measures of bureaucratic constraints in European Union laws from hand‐coding to machine‐learning", Regulation & Governance, 2024.

Generational gap and post-ideological politics in Italy (POSTGEN): A generation-aware analysis of ideological destructuring and political change in the Italian case

De Sio, L. and Legnante, G. and Tuorto, D. and Vezzoni, C. and Angelucci, D. and Boldrini, M. and Bordignon, M. and Curini, L. and De Angelis, A. and Di Cocco, J. and Leofreddi, A. and Maggini, N. and Mannoni, E. and Marolla, F. and Pagano, G. and Pennucci, N. and Piacentini, A. and Piacentini, F., "Generational gap and post-ideological politics in Italy (POSTGEN): A generation-aware analysis of ideological destructuring and political change in the Italian case", ITALIAN POLITICAL SCIENCE, 2023.

Misinformation

Bordignon, M. and Pagano, G., "Misinformation", Elgar Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics, 2022.

Facebook as a media digest: user engagement and party references to hostile and friendly media during an election campaign

Ceron, A. and Pagano, G. and Bordignon, M., "Facebook as a media digest: user engagement and party references to hostile and friendly media during an election campaign", Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 2022.

Disinformation

Bordignon, M. and Pagano, G., "Disinformation", Elgar Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics, 2022.

The 2019 EP Election in Italy: A ‘Titanic’ Victory for Salvini’s League

Ceron, A. and Bordignon, M. and Pagano, G., "The 2019 EP Election in Italy: A 'Titanic' Victory for Salvini's League", Political Campaigning and Communication, 2021.

Talks

Tutorial on Visual Analysis for Political Scientists

September 03, 2025

Talk at SISP 38th Annual Conference, Naples, Italy

Tutorial on Large Language Models for Political Scientists

September 11, 2024

Talk at SISP 37th Annual Conference, Trieste, Italy

Teaching

Introduction to R

Multivariate Analysis for Social and Political Scientists

Data Management and Database Concepts (Lab)

Political Science (Teaching Assistant)

Service and leadership

• Thesis supervision, for students of the MA in Public and Corporate Communication (2022-2024).

Skills

• Computational text analysis
• Computer vision for social science
• Statistical analysis (R, Python)
• Data management for social science