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      <issn pub-type="ppub">1613-0073</issn>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Data⋆</article-title>
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          <string-name>Valentina Antoniol</string-name>
          <email>valentina.antoniol@uniba.it</email>
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          <string-name>Fabiana Battista</string-name>
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          <string-name>Paolo Buono</string-name>
          <email>paolo.buono@uniba.it</email>
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          <string-name>Danilo Caivano</string-name>
          <email>danilo.caivano@uniba.it</email>
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          <string-name>Vincenzo Tamburrano</string-name>
          <email>vincenzo.gattulli@uniba.it</email>
          <email>vincenzo.tamburrano@uniba.it</email>
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          <string-name>Cyber Social Security, CSS, Human Factors, Education, Social Sensor Data</string-name>
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          <institution>Annita Larissa Sciacovelli</institution>
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          <institution>Dipartimento Di FOR.PSI.COM, University of Bari Aldo Moro</institution>
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          <institution>Dipartimento Di Ricerca E Innovazione Umanistica, University of Bari Aldo Moro</institution>
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          <institution>Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, University of Bari Aldo Moro</institution>
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          <institution>Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Bari Aldo Moro</institution>
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          <institution>Dipartimento di Matematica, University of Bari Aldo Moro</institution>
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          <institution>Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, University of Bari Aldo Moro</institution>
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          <institution>Gabriella Calvano</institution>
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          <institution>Marco de Gemmis</institution>
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        <p>The combination of data coming from social media, smartphones and from urban sensors can actually enable the ability to carry out in-depth analyzes and understand complex phenomena based on human behavior, opening new scenarios for the development of numerous innovative services and applications. By following this research line, the recent paradigm of Social Sensing further emphasized this vision, since it proposed an integrated model in which users themselves are turned into sensors, entities that produce simple rough information which is processed and aggregated in order to generate some valuable human-based findings obtained through the combination and merge of individual-based data. Therefore, considering this scenario, the research work aims to identify and characterize all open information sources that can be interfaced with applications, useful for detecting and interpreting human behavior and the social context, and through language analysis. It also intends to survey and characterize the afective, cognitive, and executive factors that influence/determine human behavior in the use of new technologies. The international geopolitical scenario will also be traced in order to be able to interpret human and social behaviors correctly.</p>
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      <title>1. Introduction</title>
      <p>Social media has become an integral part of modern society, influencing various aspects of our lives,
including urban security. It plays a vital role in urban security by enhancing information dissemination,
crowd-sourced reporting, community engagement, and awareness. However, it also introduces privacy
concerns and the risk of misinformation.</p>
      <p>1. Information Dissemination and Emergency Response: One of social media’s most significant benefits
in urban security is its ability to disseminate information during emergencies rapidly. Platforms
like Twitter and Facebook have provided real-time updates during natural disasters, terrorist
attacks, and other crises. This enables authorities to communicate more efectively with the
public and coordinate emergency responses.</p>
      <p>CEUR</p>
      <p>ceur-ws.org
2. Crowd-Sourced Reporting: social media allows citizens to contribute to urban security by reporting
suspicious activities, accidents, or emergencies. Mobile applications and hashtags like “See
Something, Say Something” encourage people to share information with law enforcement agencies,
enhancing situational awareness and overall security in cities.
3. Community Engagement and Awareness: Local police departments and city agencies use social
media to engage with their communities, share safety tips, and raise awareness about crime
prevention.
4. Surveillance and Privacy Concerns: While social media aids urban security, it also raises privacy
and surveillance concerns. The proliferation of surveillance cameras and the potential for facial
recognition technology poses ethical questions about personal privacy.
5. Misinformation and Panic: social media can also be a source of misinformation and panic during
emergencies. False rumors and fake news can spread rapidly, causing unnecessary alarm and
hampering oficial response eforts.</p>
      <p>Social media emerges as a powerful tool for raising awareness about urban violence by allowing
survivors to share their stories, build communities, and advocate for change. For instance, platforms
like X, played a significant role in the global spread of the #MeToo movement, allowing survivors to
share their experiences and raise awareness about the prevalence of sexual harassment and assault.
Women’s rights organizations and activists use social media to spread information about resources,
support networks, and legal avenues available to survivors. It has facilitated the creation of online
communities for survivors to connect and heal. Online campaigns and platforms such as “SafeCity”1 in
India collect crowd-sourced data on incidents of harassment and violence against women, helping to
map urban danger zones and advocate for safer cities.</p>
      <p>Other forms of violence that can be committed online are cyberbullying and revenge porn, which are
often connected. Women who speak out on social media usually face online harassment, threats, and
doxxing, which can further victimize them and deter others from reporting incidents. Revenge Porn is
the non-consensual sharing of intimate images or videos is another form of online violence against
women that is amplified through social media.</p>
      <p>In the research, we investigate the role of social media in addressing and amplifying urban violence
along the following dimensions:
• Cyber Intimate Partner Violence
• Cyber Gender-based Violence and Stereotypes
• Cyber Hate Speech and Falsehoods
• Urban Mapping &amp; Privacy
• Ethical and Political Risks to interpret Human and Social Behaviors</p>
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      <title>2. Security Units in CSS context</title>
      <p>Detection: characterize, identify, understand and predict significant cyber-mediated events and changes
in human, social, cultural and political behavior as well as the methods for monitoring and protecting
”social” end-points, thus being able to operate with devices (IT and IoT ) and diversified information
1https://safecity.in/publications/research-papers
sources (OSINT/CLOSINT) taking into account the national and international legal framework (GDPR,
NIS, CyberSecurity Act).</p>
      <p>Response: defining intervention and cooperation protocols between the main players in civil society
in order to guarantee resilience and social security, including through homeland security technologies
and the fight against cyber terrorism and cybercrime. The review of the Detection-Response-Prevention
cycle will also clarify the limits within which it is possible to find and manage information while
protecting the citizen’s right to privacy and the security of civil society.</p>
      <p>Prevention: redefine the processes of census and prevention of ”accidents” in the light of new critical
assets (individuals, groups, communities, software applications and infrastructures for the public service,
etc.), including elements of physical, organizational and applicative security as well as socio-political,
economic, psychological and legal context.</p>
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      <title>3. Methods for detection and interpreting human behavior in CSS and the social context</title>
      <p>
        A range of methods have been developed to detect and interpret human behavior and social context.
Villalonga et al. [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">3</xref>
        ] and Baños et al. [4] both propose ontology-based approaches that combine low-level
behavior primitives to derive high-level context information. Villalonga’s method focuses on activities,
locations, and emotions, while Baños extends this to include multimodal context mining.
      </p>
      <p>Groh et al. [5] introduce a method for quantitatively measuring social interactions using infrared
tracking, which can be used to identify social situations. Mojarad et al. [6] present a context-aware
approach to detecting abnormal human behaviors, using machine learning models to recognize activities,
locations, and objects, and an ontology to conceptualize behavior contexts. Onnela et al. [7] highlight
the use of sociometers, small sensors that can objectively measure group-level behavior in natural
settings. Instead, in [8] is emphasized the use of empirical measurements and mathematical inference
to quantitatively analyze individual and social behaviors. Schweizer [9] discusses the use of various
research tools, including candidate gene approaches, quantitative genetics, and neuro-endocrine studies,
to study the mechanism and function of social behavior. Germain [10] provides an ecological view,
considering the influence of various contexts such as society, culture, community, and the physical
environment on human behavior.</p>
      <p>Therefore, some research works are reviewed to identify the diferent methods to detect urban
violence.</p>
      <p>• Automatic Classification of Sexism in Social Networks: An Empirical Study on Twitter Data [11].</p>
      <p>In response to the escalating spread of hateful and sexist content on social networks, this study
introduces a task aimed at understanding and detecting sexism in various forms within online
conversations. The study employs traditional and deep learning models for automatic detection
by utilizing a newly developed dataset of sexist expressions and attitudes in Spanish on Twitter
(MeTwo). Results indicate the prevalence of sexism in diverse forms and the eficacy of deep
learning approaches, particularly BERT, in detecting sexist expressions. The study emphasizes
the need for nuanced approaches to identify and combat sexism, addressing both explicit hate
and subtle stereotypes in online discourse.
• Domestic violence crisis identification from Facebook posts based on deep learning [12]. Domestic
violence poses a significant threat to public health and human rights. This study addresses the
urgent need for quick identification of domestic violence victims through social media. Leveraging
deep learning, the study achieves up to 94% accuracy in identifying victims, surpassing traditional
machine-learning techniques. The analysis of informative features highlights critical words
indicative of crisis situations. The study emphasizes the potential of deep learning in providing
timely support to domestic violence victims by automatically identifying crisis situations shared
on social me.
• Modeling stress with social media around incidents of gun violence on college campuses [13]. Stress is
a persistent challenge for college students, exacerbated by violent events on campuses. Leveraging
social media as a passive sensor of stress, this study introduces computational techniques to
quantify and examine stress responses post-gun violence incidents. A machine learning classifier
achieves 82% accuracy in inferring stress expression from Reddit posts. Analyzing social media
data around 12 campus gun violence incidents reveals amplified stress levels, characterized by
distinctive temporal and linguistic changes. The study highlights the potential of social media
analysis in understanding and addressing stress responses following traumatic events on college
campuses.
• Domestic violence and information communication technologies [14]. The paper addresses the
impact of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) on the experiences of domestic
violence survivors, a dimension often overlooked in technological research and design. Through
interviews with female survivors residing in a domestic violence shelter, the study reveals
the role of mobile phones and social networking sites in post-leaving abuse. Survivors report
harassment via mobile phones and experience additional harassment, but also support, through
social networking sites. The study underscores the need to consider ICTs in understanding and
addressing the challenges faced by domestic violence survivors post-escape.
• Cyber Aggression and Cyberbullying Identification on Social Networks [15]. Examining the
widespread issue of bullying in the digital realm, this study focuses on cyber aggression and
cyberbullying identification on Italian Twitter. Employing Random Forest as the primary classifier,
the study processes textual comments to detect aggressive phenomena. The approach achieves
notable accuracy and introduces an innovative dataset, the ”Aggressive Italian Dataset,”
providing insights into common patterns in Italian culture related to aggression. The study outlines
potential improvements, emphasizing the importance of continuous refinement in identifying
and addressing cyberbullying in online social networks.
• Unveiling Online Sexual Violence Disclosures: A Cross-Platform Analysis Before, During, and After
#MeToo [16]. This study investigates the phenomenon of online disclosure of sexual violence, a
relatively recent development. Unlike previous research that predominantly focused on Twitter
data during the #MeToo movement, our study spans two years and compares disclosures across
various platforms. Using machine learning, we identified 2,927 disclosures for quantitative
content analysis. The findings reveal significant diferences in timing, information shared,
density, co-occurrence, and length across online platforms. Notably, Twitter and the #MeToo
movement had the highest number of disclosures, but this study emphasizes the importance of
examining online disclosures beyond these contexts. By analyzing Dutch posts, the study aims to
reduce heterogeneity and provide a more universal understanding of online disclosures of sexual
victimization, addressing cultural and platform-specific factors.
• Advancing Hate Speech Detection on Social Media: A Transfer Learning Approach [17], [18], [19].</p>
      <p>With the proliferation of social media and the surge in hate speech, detecting ofensive content
has become crucial. This study introduces a transfer learning approach for hate speech detection,
utilizing pre-trained models for data analysis. Two transfer learning models, Google’s Word2vec
with LSTM and GloVe with LSTM, are proposed and compared against baseline algorithms. The
results demonstrate superior performance in classifying hate, ofensive, and neutral speech. The
study emphasizes the need for eficient methods to combat hate speech’s detrimental societal
impacts and highlights the potential of transfer learning in achieving improved detection accuracy
across various datasets.</p>
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      <title>4. Methods for Content Extraction &amp; Annotation</title>
      <p>This section aims to describe a framework for the semantic analysis of social streams. It is possible to
define a coarse-grained set of requirements which the proposed framework has to implement:
1. Extract textual information from social networks/datasets obtained from social or urban streams.
2. Associate a richer semantics to each piece of content (e.g. the general topic a textual piece of
information is about).
3. Associate an opinion (positive, negative, neutral) or a semantic score related to the task being
accomplished to each piece of content.
4. Aggregate the information stream in a way that could be exploited to investigate the target
phenomenon.</p>
      <p>The framework is based on the concept of analysis. Each analysis is run by defining a set of extraction
heuristics and some processing steps. In a typical pipeline, a user interacts with the framework by
defining the social/urban streams she wants to analyze and the heuristics based on which will then
extract content from those streams. Next, the user defines the processes that must be performed on the
previously extracted content. The platform’s goal is to extract, analyze, aggregate, and organize a very
large amount of rough data, in order to produce some valuable analytics for the final user.</p>
      <p>The extractor component exploits the APIs to access popular social networks as well as connectors
to ofline datasets. The resulting database is fed according to specific heuristics (e.g. to extract all the
Tweets containing a specific hashtag, all the posts or the Tweets coming from a specific location, and
all the posts crawled from specific Facebook pages). After the extraction step, a semantic analysis is
performed to associate to each piece of content with the topic it is about.</p>
      <p>Given some extraction heuristics, the component connects to social network platforms being
investigated to extract content that matches the heuristics and feed the contributions database. The component
will implement the bridges towards the platform by exploiting their oficial APIs. In the case of ofline
datasets, appropriate “import APIs” will be implemented. For instance, as regards X (formerly Twitter),
the content could be extracted by querying the oficial Streaming APIs, while for Facebook, due to
privacy reasons, only the content coming from specific pages or specific groups could be extracted.</p>
      <p>In the following, we use the term “document” to refer to a fragment of text in the social stream (e.g.
a Facebook or X post, a document in an ofline dataset).</p>
      <p>However, as extraction heuristics, six diferent alternatives will be made available in general for a
textual social stream:
• Content: extracts all the documents that contain a specific term.
• User: extracts all the documents a specific user posts, given its user name.
• Geo: extracts all the available (geolocalized) documents, given latitude, longitude, and radius.
• Content Geo: extract all the available geolocalized documents that match the terms indicated.
• Page: extract all the posts from a specific page (the main post and the replies).</p>
      <p>• Group: extract all the posts from a specific group (the main posts and the replies).</p>
      <p>We also plan to work on news and open data. In addition, we exploited the list of relevant RSS feeds
for the project to extract news. We downloaded the RSS feeds and ignored those feeds to which it was
not possible to connect. Then, the RSS feed processing step is performed: the RSS feed is processed,
and for each news item, the GUID (Global unique Identifier) is stored, i.e. the unique identifier of each
article. Furthermore, the source of the feed, the date of publication, and the category of the article are
stored. For extracting the article from the web page, a Python library for news scraping is available,
which parses web pages automatically, extracting the news content. The news will be filtered according
to the above-mentioned heuristics. This process continuously feeds the news repository on which we
will carry out the analysis according to the purposes of the project.</p>
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      <title>5. Methods for detecting Cyber Intimate Partner Violence</title>
      <p>The proposed domain of Cyber Intimate Partner Violence (C-IPV) intends to investigate the following
objectives:
1. studying the phenomenon and the prevalence of C-IPV in Italian population and
2. determining indicators -in terms of personality traits, dispositional diferences, and cognitive
individuals’ characteristics- of this type of violence.</p>
      <p>The final aim is to design a predictive model to prevent C-IPV. More precisely, first, it will be conducted
a correlational study to assess the prevalence of the main categories of C-IPV (cyber psychological
aggression, cyber sexual aggression, and cyber stalking) among Italian population. To better frame the
phenomenon, it will be investigated not only the prevalence of victimization but also perpetration rates.
It will be also taken into consideration the demographic variable of gender. This is important as so far
studies considering this variable have inconclusive results. On one hand, there are studies showing
gender diferences [ 20], [21], on the other hand, others did not find diferences in males and females
[22], [23]. In addition, in this study, individuals’ personality and cognitive characteristics ill be tested in
order to trace possible correlations, i.e., associations, between the phenomenon of C-IPV and specific
individuals’ features. The following validated questionnaires will be used to test:
• Personality and cognitive traits as well as dispositional features: Dark Triad Dirty Dozen (DTDD),
Short Dark Triad (SD3), Assessment of Sadistic Personality (ASP), Trait Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20),
Big Five Questionnaire (BFQ), Moral Disengagement Scale (MDS), State-Trait Anger Expression
Inventory (STAXI), Ruminative Response Scale (RRS), Anger Rumination Scale (ARS), State-Trait
Anxiety Inventory-Y (STAI-Y), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Digit Span (DS), Stroop task,
Plus Minus task.
• Cyber intimate partner violence behaviours: Cyber Dating Violence Inventory (CDVI),
Cyber</p>
      <p>Dating Abuse Questionnaire (CDAQ) e Cyber Aggression in Relationships Scale (CARS).</p>
      <p>In addition, we will also consider sociodemographic variables, such as gender, education, and
nationality. Based on the results achieved with the first correlational studies, it will be possible to conceive and
deceive further experimental studies to determine human-based behaviors surrounding cyber intimate
partner violence.</p>
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      <title>6. Methods for detecting Hate Speech and Falsehoods</title>
      <p>The objective of this domain is to analyse the linguistic characteristics of false statements and hate
speech in spoken and written communication. Our focus is on the phonetic and phonological traits of
these attitudes, which will be studied using a spectro-acoustic analysis.</p>
      <p>Experimental analyses on lying are comparatively sparse; these have primarily focused on the lexical
and semantic features of false information within the context of the English language. To date, no
acoustic studies have been conducted on the Italian language. In the absence of studies conducted in
Italian, it is crucial to carefully select the experimental methodology.</p>
      <p>The development of a reliable linguistic approach to lie detection is proving to be an encouraging
area of research. When a person is telling a lie, the cognitive load of doing so causes various patterns of
speech to emerge. Thus, it is promising to derive a method for predicting truthfulness by analysing
speech patterns in comparison to the way a person speaks when telling the truth.</p>
      <p>We intend to explore lying in spoken language using controlled tasks such as creating a false story
about a personal subject [24], or using a game framework [25]. Given the cognitive demands of
lying, a number of prosodic vocal cues appear when someone is lying. According to the results of
research conducted on English, liars tend to make more frequent and longer pauses during speech to
give themselves more time to construct their lie. Moreover, the act of lying imposes a cognitive load
resulting in delayed responses to questions, an increased number of speech errors, and a reduced speech
rate. Interestingly, individuals tend to modify their pitch to raise it when lying, with a progressively
increasing trend towards the end of each utterance [26].</p>
      <p>We aim to examine the phonetic elements of deceptive speech, comparing them with a controlled
speech sample. This will involve analysing parameters such as the duration of nuclear syllables, formant
frequencies (F0, F1, F2), speech rate, pauses and vowel quality. In the context of prosody, the research
aims to investigate the structure of intonation in speech with a focus on the distribution and patterns
of pitch accents and boundary tones, as well as pitch range, after extracting the values of f0 min, f0
max, onset and ofset.</p>
      <p>The second linguistic objective of the project is to examine hate speech. Our particular focus is on
the analysis of insults and slurs in written communication: examine the speech acts that lead to the
creation of social and emotional tensions between users. Specifically, our objective is to examine how
the speaker uses language to intensify insults and increase their illocutionary force. The aim is to
investigate the intensification of insults in the context of computer-mediated communication, which is
notoriously characterised by mixed and creative means, languages and forms of communication, and
which is supplied by paraverbal devices. The research hypothesis posits that individuals who engage in
online hate speech are adept at utilizing various linguistic and paralinguistic mechanisms to amplify
the impact of their insults, some of which are exclusive to the digital medium. To achieve our goal, a
substantial collection of ofensive language from various social media platforms will be gathered. This
will allow us to analyse the intensification of lexical, semantic, pragmatic, and paralinguistic phenomena
in detail.</p>
      <p>In terms of spoken language, previous research on impolite speech acts mostly concentrated on
pragmatic strategies, neglecting the examination of prosody. The objective of this project is to analyse
the prosody of Italian insults and slurs, utilising a spectro-acoustic approach through controlled tasks
such as role-plays and the Discourse Completion Task. The aim is to examine the extent to which
intensity and pitch range are activated to convey the meaning of invading the hearer’s acoustic space.
The research hypothesis states that insults exhibit a high intensity and slowed speech rate. The pitch
range of the target utterances difers from control speech (either narrowed or widened), as the f0 values
are predominantly placed on a high frequency range.</p>
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      <title>7. Methods for detecting Gender-based Violence and Stereotypes</title>
      <p>The opportunities ofered by the encounter of methods deriving from social sciences and informatics
concern several domains. As a matter of fact, the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) covers a wide
range of domains, including tools to provide critical decisions about who is going to be hired, admitted to
college, etc. [27]. As a consequence, it is increasingly important to individuate and eventually mitigate
any kind of bias, including gender bias, thus improving fairness in NLP systems. More generally, the
increasing presence of online hate groups and web-based hate speech [28], led toward even institutional
eforts to contrast those phenomena, such as the Convention on Cybercrime and the Additional Protocol
to Regulate Hate Speech Online by the Council of Europe in 2003.</p>
      <p>In the research field concerning the extraction of opinions and emotions from text, works on hate
groups and in radical forums at the document or sentence level have been usually proposed, as well as
lexicon-based semantic content. Analysis of textual data (mostly deriving from the Twitter platform)
addressed social, ethnic, sexual or gender minority groups (women, gay and lesbian persons, immigrants,
Muslims, Jews and disabled persons) [29]. Despite research in sexism detection represents a growing
domain, some of the limitations in the literature about these matters concern the focus on English as
the main language and on Twitter as the main platform for data extraction [30]. In addition, sexism
embraces a wide range of attitudes and behaviors (such as stereotyping, ideological issues, sexual
violence, etc.), and can be expressed in diferent ways: direct, indirect, descriptive or reported [ 31],
thus implying that misogyny is only one case of sexism [32]. However, studies mostly concentrate on
detecting hostile and explicit sexism, while neglecting subtle or implicit expressions of sexism [33],
[34].</p>
      <p>As a consequence, this research could try to overcome these limits by improving the following
research orientations to:
• take into account some specific socio-cultural issues and variables;
• expand the social media sources for data extraction;
• propose a codebook that includes a wide spectrum of sexist attitudes and behaviors, as subtle
forms of sexism are most frequent and dangerous for society [35].</p>
      <p>The last orientation really represents a critical and core issue, since, to the best of our knowledge,
the automatic detection of somewhat implicit content represents a great challenge.</p>
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      <title>8. International Geopolitical Scenario to interpret the Human and</title>
    </sec>
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      <title>Social Behaviors</title>
      <p>The international geopolitical context takes on significant weight in conditioning human and social
behavior. In particular, global alliances, political conflicts and economic issues can influence the political,
economic, social and cultural conditions that define the environment and context in which people live,
transforming their perspectives and priorities. Therefore, although the ”macro level” of geopolitics and
the ”micro level” of individual lives clearly refer to two very diferent scales of analysis, nevertheless
they not only can but must be related [36], [37].</p>
      <p>A key example of the relationship between geopolitical dimensions and human and social behavior
is linked to the issue of fear and security. Ongoing tensions and conflicts, as well as the threat of armed,
nuclear or terrorist conflicts, contribute to generating a climate of instability and fear, with physical
and psychological repercussions on individuals, prompting them to demand (not necessarily adequate
and rational) security and protection measures (Derrida, 1992). In turn, this demand can pave the way
for disproportionate measures of social and political control that risk limiting collective and individual
freedoms [38].</p>
      <p>Not only that, conditions of instability (real or perceived) related to political tensions of local impact, or
geopolitical crises of international impact, can also have additional, even very diferent if not conflicting,
consequences. Certainly, they can lead to eforts at international cooperation and solidarity, inducing
the development in individuals of a greater awareness of global issues and a sense of responsibility to
the international community [39]. At the same time, they can force individuals directly involved in
tensions to move (legitimately) to seek protection or better living conditions. Migration phenomena
and flows, especially when they are large-scale, can have significant impacts on the communities and
territories that welcome (favorably or unfavourably) migrants. Moreover, very often migrants are used
as a picklock to stir up fears that are easily exploited politically. It is not uncommon for the very figure
of the migrant to be used, by governments and local administrations, as a ”political enemy,” i.e., as a
danger that makes the application of control and security measures legitimate, limiting the personal
and political freedoms of both migrants and the community at large [40], [41].</p>
      <p>It is also important to consider that diplomatic agreements and geopolitical alliances can influence
the perception of the “other” and help promote peace on the one hand, but also intensify tensions on
the other. In fact, perceived threats from outside can consolidate feelings of belonging and national
identity that lead to changes, if not even culture clashes, which can shape public opinions and social
values [42]. A key role in these processes is taken on by the media, which amplify geopolitical events,
influencing public opinion and contributing (positively or negatively) to the formation of political and
cultural positionings. Finally, geopolitical relations, dynamics and tensions have an impact in economic
terms, as they influence (including through alliances, trade agreements and economic sanctions) the
availability of resources, job opportunities and the cost of living of individuals. They can also lead to
more general changes in work patterns, wealth distribution and access to resources.</p>
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      <title>9. Conclusion</title>
      <p>Social media has become a crucial element in enhancing urban security, with its impact spanning various
areas such as information dissemination, community engagement, and real-time crisis response. While
it significantly contributes to public safety, it also raises concerns around privacy and misinformation.</p>
      <p>In the context of urban violence, social media serves as a powerful platform for survivors to share
their experiences, build communities, and advocate for change. However, social media also plays a
part in online violence, such as cyberbullying and revenge porn, often targeting women. Women who
speak out on social media platforms often face online harassment, threats, and doxxing, which not only
re-victimizes them but also discourages others from reporting similar incidents. Revenge porn, the
non-consensual sharing of intimate images or videos, is another example of online violence amplified
through social media.</p>
      <p>Therefore, the research focused on understanding the role of social media in urban violence through
various dimensions, including cyber intimate partner violence, gender-based violence, cyber hate
speech, urban mapping, and privacy concerns. A central aim of the study is the development of a ”Cyber
Social Security” framework to address these issues, drawing on multidisciplinary methods, including IT,
psychology, economics, law, and social sciences. This framework will focus on the core functions of
Cyber Security within social contexts: Detection, Response, and Prevention.</p>
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CyberSpace - SERICS” (PE00000014) under the MUR National Recovery and Resilience Plan funded by
the European Union - NextGenerationEU.</p>
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