Pablo Aragón

I am Pablo Aragón, PhD candidate at the Artificial Intelligence group – Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Since 2011, I am researcher at the Digital Humanities Unit in Eurecat – Technology Centre of Catalonia (formerly the Social Media Research group in Barcelona Media), where my main activity deals with retrieving, analysing and visualising Big Data from the Social Web. I focus especially on the study of communication dynamics and information diffusion in the context of political discussion and emerging grassroot movements.

My main research interests are:

• Computational Social Science

• Social Systems
• Online Politics
• Social Network Analysis
• Social media and Civic Engagement
• Information Retrieval
• Big Data

Additionally, I actively collaborate with the "Networks, Social Movements and Technopolitics" research group (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute - Open University of Catalonia) in the DatAnalysis15M research network.