Pierangelo Rosati
Dublin City University, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway
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About
Pierangelo Rosati is a researcher whose work sits at the intersection of social media analysis, public health communication, and computational social science. His scholarship has focused particularly on the spread of anti-vaccine discourse online, with a specific emphasis on the role of automated software programs and social bots in shaping digital conversations around health misinformation. Through empirical investigation of Twitter activity during the COVID-19 pandemic, Rosati has shed light on how non-human actors infiltrate and amplify public health debates, raising important questions about trust in health institutions and the integrity of online information ecosystems. His 2021 study, "Bad Robot," offered one of the early explorations of bot prevalence within the #antivaxx discourse during the pandemic, accumulating 3 citations and establishing a foundation for subsequent inquiry. Building on this, his 2025 follow-up examined the nuanced, and at times benevolent, deployment of automated messaging by influencers, further complicating simplistic narratives about bots as purely malicious actors. With a growing citation profile and timely research questions that speak directly to misinformation, platform governance, and public health resilience, Rosati represents an emerging voice in the study of automated influence and digital health communication.
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