TY - JOUR AU - Faggiolani, Chiara AU - Verna, Lorenzo AU - Vivarelli, Maurizio PY - 2017/09/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Text mining and network science to analyze the complexity of reading. Principles, methods, application experiences JF - JLIS.it JA - JLIS.it VL - 8 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - 10.4403/jlis.it-12414 UR - https://jlis.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/130 SP - 115-136 AB - <span>This paper proposes some reflections concerning the practice of reading, its conceptual structure and its transformations, the blurred profile of the information ecology in which </span><span>it</span><span> is inserted. At the same time illustrates  some outcomes of  a research project conducted with tools of text mining and network science on the social reading platform aNobii . </span><br /><span>The  paper presents these main topics: a) general overview of reading's context; b) short discussion reading as a complex system; c) presentation of some central concepts of network science and of its applications; d) introduction to text mining  with some results of analysis of aNobii's reviews;  e) conclusions and prospectives. </span> ER -