"Young Adult Unemployment Through the Lens of Social Media: Italy as a Case Study” presented at SocInfo 2020 at Pisa. Here are some insights from the paper - Unemployment is not related to cultural differences, but rather than to opportunities. - There are small personality and psychological attributes related to unemployment, such as agreeability, openness to experiences, all part of the soft skills set which schooling helps improve. Important take home message in a world of accelerated digitalisation of workforce and schooling. - Unemployment impacts the trust relationship of citizen and national government which reflects to other social issues such as cooperation during the pandemic, vaccination, and even immigration. - Finally, unemployed appear to use Facebook as a news source with obvious risks of falling in disinformation echo-chambers Link to the paper https://tinyurl.com/y4y3xvhg

1. Young Adult Unemployment Through the Lens
of Social Media: Italy as a case study
Presented by Kyriaki Kalimeri
ISI FOUNDATION, ITALY
Alessandra Urbinati, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Andrea Bonanomi, Alessandro Rosina, Ciro Cattuto, Daniela Paolotti
SocInfo 2020
Pisa, Italy

8. Available at: likeyouth.org

10. DATA COLLECTION: THE LIKEYOUTH FACEBOOK APP

11. DATA COLLECTION: THE LIKEYOUTH FACEBOOK APP
Facebook hosted application

12. Basic Demographics: Gender, Education, Age, Location
DATA COLLECTION: THE LIKEYOUTH FACEBOOK APP
Facebook hosted application

13. Personality Traits (Big5 Model)
Basic Demographics: Gender, Education, Age, Location
DATA COLLECTION: THE LIKEYOUTH FACEBOOK APP
Facebook hosted application

14. Personality Traits (Big5 Model)
Moral Values (Moral Foundations Theory)
Basic Demographics: Gender, Education, Age, Location
DATA COLLECTION: THE LIKEYOUTH FACEBOOK APP
Facebook hosted application

15. Personality Traits (Big5 Model)
Moral Values (Moral Foundations Theory)
Interests, Culture and Hobbies
Basic Demographics: Gender, Education, Age, Location
DATA COLLECTION: THE LIKEYOUTH FACEBOOK APP
Facebook hosted application

16. Political Worldviews (based on the Political Values by Schwartz)
Personality Traits (Big5 Model)
Moral Values (Moral Foundations Theory)
Interests, Culture and Hobbies
Basic Demographics: Gender, Education, Age, Location
DATA COLLECTION: THE LIKEYOUTH FACEBOOK APP
Facebook hosted application

25. FINDINGS: PERSONALITY TRAITS (BIG5) & MORAL FOUNDATIONS
Mann-Whitney Test on self-reported survey data. All claims are statistical significant (p < 0.05)

26. FINDINGS: PERSONALITY TRAITS (BIG5) & MORAL FOUNDATIONS
Mann-Whitney Test on self-reported survey data. All claims are statistical significant (p < 0.05)
less agreeable

27. FINDINGS: PERSONALITY TRAITS (BIG5) & MORAL FOUNDATIONS
Mann-Whitney Test on self-reported survey data. All claims are statistical significant (p < 0.05)
less agreeable
more open to new experiences

28. FINDINGS: PERSONALITY TRAITS (BIG5) & MORAL FOUNDATIONS
Mann-Whitney Test on self-reported survey data. All claims are statistical significant (p < 0.05)
less agreeable
more open to new experiences
respect for authority

29. FINDINGS: PERSONALITY TRAITS (BIG5) & MORAL FOUNDATIONS
Mann-Whitney Test on self-reported survey data. All claims are statistical significant (p < 0.05)
less agreeable
more open to new experiences
in-group loyalty
respect for authority

30. FINDINGS: PERSONALITY TRAITS (BIG5) & MORAL FOUNDATIONS
Mann-Whitney Test on self-reported survey data. All claims are statistical significant (p < 0.05)
less agreeable
more open to new experiences
value more the protection of others
in-group loyalty
respect for authority

31. FINDINGS: PERSONALITY TRAITS (BIG5) & MORAL FOUNDATIONS
Mann-Whitney Test on self-reported survey data. All claims are statistical significant (p < 0.05)
less agreeable
more open to new experiences
value more the protection of others
in-group loyalty
respect for authority
purity

32. FINDINGS: PERSONALITY TRAITS (BIG5) & MORAL FOUNDATIONS
Mann-Whitney Test on self-reported survey data. All claims are statistical significant (p < 0.05)
less agreeable
more open to new experiences
value more the protection of others
purity in-group loyalty
respect for authority
purity

33. FINDINGS: POLITICAL VALUES
Mann-Whitney Test on self-reported survey data. All claims are statistical significant (p < 0.05)

34. FINDINGS: POLITICAL VALUES
more worried about protecting their
traditional values
Mann-Whitney Test on self-reported survey data. All claims are statistical significant (p < 0.05)

35. FINDINGS: POLITICAL VALUES
more worried about protecting their
traditional values
worry less about national and international
threats
Mann-Whitney Test on self-reported survey data. All claims are statistical significant (p < 0.05)

36. FINDINGS: POLITICAL VALUES
more worried about protecting their
traditional values
believe less in equal opportunities
worry less about national and international
threats
Mann-Whitney Test on self-reported survey data. All claims are statistical significant (p < 0.05)

37. FINDINGS: POLITICAL VALUES
positive take on public enterprise
privatisation
more worried about protecting their
traditional values
believe less in equal opportunities
worry less about national and international
threats
Mann-Whitney Test on self-reported survey data. All claims are statistical significant (p < 0.05)

38. FINDINGS: POLITICAL VALUES
trust less the EU, the national
government, and president
trust less the national
government and president
positive take on public enterprise
privatisation
more worried about protecting their
traditional values
believe less in equal opportunities
worry less about national and international
threats
Mann-Whitney Test on self-reported survey data. All claims are statistical significant (p < 0.05)

39. FINDINGS: POLITICAL VALUES
trust less the EU, the national
government, and president
trust less the national
government and president
positive take on public enterprise
privatisation
more worried about protecting their
traditional values
believe less in equal opportunities
worry less about national and international
threats
Mann-Whitney Test on self-reported survey data. All claims are statistical significant (p < 0.05)

40. FINDINGS: CULTURAL INTERESTS
Mann-Whitney Test on Facebook Likes, validated also by the self-reported survey data.
All claims are statistical significant (p < 0.05)
We normalised the category frequencies for each gender and qualification subgroup

41. FINDINGS: CULTURAL INTERESTS
Mann-Whitney Test on Facebook Likes, validated also by the self-reported survey data.
All claims are statistical significant (p < 0.05)
We normalised the category frequencies for each gender and qualification subgroup
musicians and bands,
movies,
news magazines,
and public figures like athletes

42. FINDINGS: CULTURAL INTERESTS
Mann-Whitney Test on Facebook Likes, validated also by the self-reported survey data.
All claims are statistical significant (p < 0.05)
We normalised the category frequencies for each gender and qualification subgroup
health and beauty
personal blogs
beauty advice and recipes
musicians and bands,
movies,
news magazines,
and public figures like athletes

43. FINDINGS: CULTURAL INTERESTS
Mann-Whitney Test on Facebook Likes, validated also by the self-reported survey data.
All claims are statistical significant (p < 0.05)
We normalised the category frequencies for each gender and qualification subgroup
health and beauty
personal blogs
beauty advice and recipes
musicians and bands,
movies,
news magazines,
and public figures like athletes
musicians and bands,
artists
news magazines

44. FINDINGS: CULTURAL INTERESTS
Mann-Whitney Test on Facebook Likes, validated also by the self-reported survey data.
All claims are statistical significant (p < 0.05)
We normalised the category frequencies for each gender and qualification subgroup
health and beauty
personal blogs
beauty advice and recipes
musicians and bands,
movies,
news magazines,
and public figures like athletes
health and beauty
public figures
athletes
beverages
musicians and bands,
artists
news magazines

48. Preprocessing steps:
- Random selection of individuals with respect to location, gender, qualification and activity patterns.
- Removed Commonly Liked Pages

49. Preprocessing steps:
- Random selection of individuals with respect to location, gender, qualification and activity patterns.
- Removed Commonly Liked Pages

50. Preprocessing steps:
- Random selection of individuals with respect to location, gender, qualification and activity patterns.
- Removed Commonly Liked Pages

51. FINDINGS: LANGUAGE MODELLING
Bi-gram probability distributions in Pages (about, description & title of the page)
No posts or comments!

52. FINDINGS: LANGUAGE MODELLING
Bi-gram probability distributions in Pages (about, description & title of the page)
No posts or comments!
Italian:
love, fashion, creation,
football,
good, photo, passion,
jewellery,
director, beauty
English:
music, fashion, game,
series, band, album, team,
news, products

53. FINDINGS: LANGUAGE MODELLING
Bi-gram probability distributions in Pages (about, description & title of the page)
No posts or comments!
Italian:
love, fashion, creation,
football,
good, photo, passion,
jewellery,
director, beauty
English:
music, fashion, game,
series, band, album, team,
news, products
Italian:
association, activity, project,
territory, culture,
cuisine, restaurant, wine, local,
research
English:
nail, polish, health, nutrition,
architecture, design,
food, healthy, diet,
science, disease, medical

54. FINDINGS: TOPIC MODELLING - NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORISATION
NMF on Page descriptions. Topics are ranked by importance

55. FINDINGS: TOPIC MODELLING - NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORISATION
NMF on Page descriptions. Topics are ranked by importance

56. FINDINGS: TOPIC MODELLING - NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORISATION
NMF on Page descriptions. Topics are ranked by importance

57. FINDINGS: TOPIC MODELLING
entertainment TV shows and news
non-profit organisations

58. CONCLUSIVE REMARKS

59. CONCLUSIVE REMARKS
Are there associations between psychological constructs
and employability?
Soft skill development is fundamental
Diverse world views collectivist versus individualistic

60. CONCLUSIVE REMARKS
Are there associations between psychological constructs
and employability?
Soft skill development is fundamental
Diverse world views collectivist versus individualistic
Are there divides between the generic interests and cultural attributes with
respect to the occupational status?
Employability is not related with the interests or cultural differences
but rather with the psychological aspects and life opportunities.

61. CONCLUSIVE REMARKS
Are there associations between psychological constructs
and employability?
Soft skill development is fundamental
Diverse world views collectivist versus individualistic
Are there divides between the generic interests and cultural attributes with
respect to the occupational status?
Employability is not related with the interests or cultural differences
but rather with the psychological aspects and life opportunities.
The two communities may have similar interests but make different use of the platform
the unemployed population use Facebook as a source of information

62. CONCLUSIVE REMARKS

63. CONCLUSIVE REMARKS
Useful insights for policymakers especially during the current
accelerated digitalisation of workforce and schooling during the pandemic

64. Young Adult Unemployment Through the Lens
of Social Media: Italy as a case study
Alessandra Urbinati, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Andrea Bonanomi, Alessandro Rosina, Ciro Cattuto, Daniela Paolotti
SocInfo 2020
Pisa, Italy
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kyriaki.kalimeri@isi.it
@KyriakiKalimeri

65. FINDINGS: DEMOGRAPHICS

66. Women and Southern Italian regions are more heavily affected by unemployment
FINDINGS: DEMOGRAPHICS

67. It is extremely important to defend our traditional religious and moral
values,
People who come to live here from other countries generally make our
country a better place to live,
I trust the President of the Republic,
I believe every person in the world should be treated in the same way. I
believe that everyone should have the same opportunities in life,
I trust the national government,
The less the government gets involved with the business and the
economy, the better off this country will be,
I trust the European Union,
I strongly believe that the state needs to be always aware of the threads,
both internal and external.
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