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Danial Vahabli
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He/him | Sociology Ph.D. Student @ SUNY SBU, Graduate Fellow @ IACS | Computational Social Science, Social Movements, Media, Protest Art | IR-TR-NY
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Mentioning the unmentionable: Perception of opportunities, agency, emotions, and identity in Iranian resistance rap prior and during the women, life, freedom uprisings
August 2025
Volume 111
Danial Vahabli

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July 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
‼️ New Paper Alert ‼️
In this paper I investigate the role of accessible discursive spaces in media and arts under authoritarianism in social movements providing a third space in between the hidden and public transcript to publicly articulate grievances. /1
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July 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I am honored to announced that I've received the Conflict, Social Action, and Change Division's Graduate Student Paper Award from The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) @sssp1org.bsky.social . 1/3
May 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Interesting article on the perceptions of human rights. Studying the meanings of human rights for ordinary individuals is absolutely necessary for transnational advocacy.
May 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Our article on using LLMs for text classification is out now in SMR! 🤖🧑‍💻💬

We compare different learning regimes, from zero-shot to instruction-tuning, and share recommendations for sociologists and other social scientists interested in using these models.

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April 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Talked about discursive resistance under authoritarianism today. #ESS2025
March 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
#ESS2025
Talked about hashtag activism for global attention today.
March 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Our current self drifts away from our past self – quickly at first, then more gradually. Evidence from US Twitter profile bios 2012-2022, more results in the paper: jasonjones.ninja/pap...
February 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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📝📊 Are social media bios getting more unique or more alike?

A study of Twitter bios (2012–2022) found that wording became more diverse, but meanings became more similar over time, suggesting both individualism & social conformity.

🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#SciComm #SocialMedia 🧪
Identity diversification and homogenization: evidence from frequent estimates of similarity of self-authored, self-descriptive text - Journal of Computational Social Science
For more than a decade, individuals composed and edited self-authored self-descriptions as social media biographies. Did these identities become more diverse over time because of a “rise in individual...
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February 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Just received an R&R! 2025 is going great!
January 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Just deactivated my Twitter account. Hopefully this platform will take off.
December 25, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Hello all,
I'm Danial Vahabli, a third year sociology PhD student at Stony Brook University broadly interested in investigating international media coverage of protests using computational methods. I'll listed my most recent paper here. Let's connect!

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November 26, 2024 at 12:21 AM