AJOVALASIT Samantha 

I) Personal information 

Name: Samantha 

Surname: Ajovalasit 

PH D Cycle: XXXIII 

-Personal website: https://www.unive.it/data/persone/24867784 

-E-mail: samantha.ajovalasit@unive.it 

-Current occupation :Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia 

II) Education within the Ph.D. 

-Dissertation title : Disorientation towards routine immunization, COVID-19 anxiety, and propensity to vaccinate. An analysis based on Twitter data in Italy. 

-Tutor (and eventual co-tutor) Prof. Angelo Mazza (Unict), Prof. Piero Manfredi (Unipi) 

-Visiting student at  

-Participation in courses/summer or winter school 

2018 - Summer School on Clustering, Data Analysis and Visualization of Complex Data  (Unict) - Statistics 

2019 - Summer School in Data Science and Epidemic Models (Unitn) - Statistics 

2019 - (Winter School) Fundamental of Digital and Computational Demography Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock - Statistics 

-Area (whether Economic, Business or Statistics) 

Statistics (SECS-S/04, SECS-S/05) 

III) Other information 

-Research interests: Complex Data, Epidemic Model, Social Media Analysis, Social Science. 

-Grants, Awards 

-Publications : Evidence of disorientation towards immunization on online social media after contrasting political communication on vaccines. Results from an analysis of Twitter data in Italy 

Ajovalasit S, Dorgali VM, Mazza A, d’Onofrio A, Manfredi P (2021) Evidence of disorientation towards immunization on online social media after contrasting political communication on vaccines. Results from an analysis of Twitter data in Italy. PLOS ONE 16(7): e0253569. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253569 

-Presentation of papers at conferences or congress: 

- PAA (Population Association of America) 2020 - Flash Session. Are the last eighteen 

months of contrasting vaccine policy in Italy reating distrust and disorientation amongst the public? Results from sentiment analysis of Twitter data. April 22-25, 

2020 Washington D.C. (USA). Cancelled due to Covic-19 Pandemic 

POPDAYS - Giornate di studio sulla Popolazione 2019. Bocconi University - Milan: 

Working paper in An Analysis of Twitter Vaccine Sentiment in Response to Ambiguity 

in the Latest Vaccine Policies in Italy. 24-26 January, 2019.