Simona Bisiani
Doctoral Researcher at the Institute for People-Centred AI, University of Surrey. Local Media research through text mining.
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- The 2025 UK Local News Report from the @publicinterestnews.org.uk is out! We analysed 18 months of changes in the local news ecosystem, mapped news deserts etc. Bonus: we looked at demographic data + LDRS. Report, interactive charts and data here: www.publicinterestnews.org.uk/blog/local-n...
- Community, I need your help! I'm looking for software / python or R package to parse digitised newspapers and automatically detect / segment & extract articles (pictures not so important). does anyone have any tips? please reshare with your network if you have access to the wide CH/CSS community!
- The 2025 English Indices of Multiple Deprivation came out today! Updating all my models on the relationship between local news provision and the various dimensions of deprivation. Meanwhile, here's some viz for the nerds: www.datawrapper.de/_/AW9I8/ www.datawrapper.de/_/lNZMS/
- Next year I will finish my phd. I’m looking for perspectives on what paths people take afterwards within academia. What did you get up to after the phd? Do you have any tips for finding and applying to positions in Europe and North America (as a European?) I am also keen on writing grant proposals.
- Are you interested in local journalism research? Next Friday we are having a free online webinar bringing together a premium selection of UK-based industry leaders, policymakers, journalists, and academics to explore how research can shape the future of local media. Check the link for more!
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- Professor Agnes Gulyas approached me to work on a report drawing from academic research on local media to signpost priority directions for industry and policymakers working to make this industry sustainable and protect the value it brings to communities and society. Report is out!
- i've written a short blog about how to quickly prototype prompts in openai and use them programmatically. used this workflow today to speedup a manual research task.
- Late night tales from your one and only.
- academic dopamine hit: two papers accepted by @comphumresearch.bsky.social this week 📚 journal article on LLMs for toponym resolution and conference paper on deriving a typology of subnational media based on coverage spatial properties. off to Luxembourg in December to present :) links to come!
- Last night, I wrote on The Local News Cartographer about my early phd work on building a database of all local news outlets in the UK. One year of research inside a 10(?) minute read. Learn the perks and pain of gathering your own phd data.
- incredible dry humour by AI summarising what it’s like to end up in a local news merger operation.
- @mediareformuk.bsky.social I think you can feel me there
- Yep, I'm on Substack: to make my research accessible and useful, I'll translate my work into digestible posts that explain how I study the local news market at scale, through text mining, to ask questions about media ownership, news deserts, and democracy: shorturl.at/q3VKI
- Seeing David Lazer in the flesh at #ic2s2 in my habitual Norrköping feels surreal and moving to say the least.
- Mobility and Urban Science 2 chaired by the one and only @lecoursonnais.bsky.social. #ic2s2 is off to a great start.
- What an awesome past few days attending @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social and getting to see *oh so beautiful* Lisbon at the same time. Still on a high from @icwsm.bsky.social, I feel honoured and humbled to having the chance to be in the room with scholars I admire and learn from. @ic2s2.bsky.social next!
- don’t these look pretty? when I did my MSc at @iasliu.bsky.social’s then-just-begun CSS program many of these early graduates were our (very friendly and patient) TAs. Nice to see what they were up to beyond dealing with us, and the pool of graduates from IAS growing.
- To all my newfound connections at @icwsm.bsky.social coming to @ic2s2.bsky.social in beautiful Norrköping (p.s. I'll be around, hit me up to see the best bar + city gems), the wonderful @hendrik-erz.de at @iasliu.bsky.social has built a tool to get you on top of things when it comes to schedule!
- So fulfilling to see the database I have built at the @publicinterestnews.org.uk being leveraged by @mediareformuk.bsky.social and the fantastic Tom Chivers for the 2025 edition of "Who Owns the UK Media?" To know more: www.publicinterestnews.org.uk/local-news-m...
- So excited to hit @icwsm.bsky.social conference with a dataset paper from my PhD research at @peoplecentredai.bsky.social. I will present tomorrow at @aau.dk in cyclist-friendly Copenhagen! Find me at the poster madness session in the afternoon!
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