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New article out: The seven roles of generative AI: Potential & pitfalls in combatting misinformation. Thomas Nygren, Emily R. Spearing, Nicolas Fay, Davide Vega, Isabella I. Hardwick, Jon Roozenbeek, and Ullrich K. H. Ecker. doi.org/10.1177/2379...
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February 16, 2026 at 8:07 AM
New article out: The seven roles of generative AI: Potential & pitfalls in combatting misinformation. Thomas Nygren, Emily R. Spearing, Nicolas Fay, Davide Vega, Isabella I. Hardwick, Jon Roozenbeek, and Ullrich K. H. Ecker. doi.org/10.1177/2379...
We welcome @theamoldovan.bsky.social as a new PhD student at the lab! Theodora will work on fairness in social network analysis.
February 9, 2026 at 10:44 AM
We welcome @theamoldovan.bsky.social as a new PhD student at the lab! Theodora will work on fairness in social network analysis.
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It's time for a few professional updates. Together with the team behind the PolarVis project and with @flxvctr.bsky.social we have been invited by @cais-research.bsky.social to organize three workshops in Bochum. The workshops - between February and May - will expand on our understanding o visual
February 9, 2026 at 10:25 AM
It's time for a few professional updates. Together with the team behind the PolarVis project and with @flxvctr.bsky.social we have been invited by @cais-research.bsky.social to organize three workshops in Bochum. The workshops - between February and May - will expand on our understanding o visual
New paper to be presented at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR): Gradient-Based Diversity Optimization with Differentiable Top-K Objective, by Tianyi Zhou, Sebastian Dalleiger, @calikus.bsky.social & Aristides Gionis. Available here: openreview.net/pdf?id=cuzWo...
February 7, 2026 at 9:20 AM
New paper to be presented at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR): Gradient-Based Diversity Optimization with Differentiable Top-K Objective, by Tianyi Zhou, Sebastian Dalleiger, @calikus.bsky.social & Aristides Gionis. Available here: openreview.net/pdf?id=cuzWo...
New article out, led by @lorenzo-mannocci.bsky.social, moving towards the "unflattening" of the study of online coordination: "Multimodal Coordinated Online Behavior: Trade-offs and Strategies". Full text here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mUYo4ZQEN...
February 4, 2026 at 3:19 PM
New article out, led by @lorenzo-mannocci.bsky.social, moving towards the "unflattening" of the study of online coordination: "Multimodal Coordinated Online Behavior: Trade-offs and Strategies". Full text here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mUYo4ZQEN...
Congratulations to @dilettagoglia.bsky.social for successfully presenting her half-time PhD seminar: "Computational methods for studying persuasion in online social communication"!
February 4, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Congratulations to @dilettagoglia.bsky.social for successfully presenting her half-time PhD seminar: "Computational methods for studying persuasion in online social communication"!
This Friday, Jan. 30 at 10:15 @dilettagoglia.bsky.social is giving her half-time PhD seminar: "Computational methods for studying persuasion in online social communication". You are welcome to join in person at the Ångström Laboratory (Uppsala), room 101127, or online:
uu-se.zoom.us/j/61715956924
uu-se.zoom.us/j/61715956924
January 25, 2026 at 1:08 PM
This Friday, Jan. 30 at 10:15 @dilettagoglia.bsky.social is giving her half-time PhD seminar: "Computational methods for studying persuasion in online social communication". You are welcome to join in person at the Ångström Laboratory (Uppsala), room 101127, or online:
uu-se.zoom.us/j/61715956924
uu-se.zoom.us/j/61715956924
New article: "Climate Clash: A Multimodal Analysis of Movement–Countermovement Interactions in the Digital Sphere". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #polarvisproject @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM
New article: "Climate Clash: A Multimodal Analysis of Movement–Countermovement Interactions in the Digital Sphere". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #polarvisproject @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social
We have an open PhD position on Fair Social Network Analysis (focused on method development but also on integrating social theory and real data analysis). Please consider applying if this is something of your interest or share this to potentially interested candidates. uuinfolab.github.io/joinus/
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November 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
We have an open PhD position on Fair Social Network Analysis (focused on method development but also on integrating social theory and real data analysis). Please consider applying if this is something of your interest or share this to potentially interested candidates. uuinfolab.github.io/joinus/
We welcome @anmen.bsky.social as a new postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala University, Dept. of Information Technology, and as a new member of the InfoLab.
November 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
We welcome @anmen.bsky.social as a new postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala University, Dept. of Information Technology, and as a new member of the InfoLab.
Congratulations to our @dvladek.bsky.social for being appointed Docent in Computer Science!
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Congratulations to our @dvladek.bsky.social for being appointed Docent in Computer Science!
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🚨 New paper out! 🚨
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2509.21092
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Special thanks to my co-authors @dvladek.bsky.social and Alessio Gandelli from @uuinfolab.bsky.social !
#ComputationalSocialScience #OnlineSocialNetworks
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🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2509.21092
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Special thanks to my co-authors @dvladek.bsky.social and Alessio Gandelli from @uuinfolab.bsky.social !
#ComputationalSocialScience #OnlineSocialNetworks
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Influence of the majority group on individual judgments in online spontaneous conversations
This study investigates how the majority group influences individual judgment formation and expression in anonymous, spontaneous online conversations. Drawing on theories of social conformity and anti...
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September 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
🚨 New paper out! 🚨
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2509.21092
[read comments for more!]
Special thanks to my co-authors @dvladek.bsky.social and Alessio Gandelli from @uuinfolab.bsky.social !
#ComputationalSocialScience #OnlineSocialNetworks
@arxiv-cs-si.bsky.social
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2509.21092
[read comments for more!]
Special thanks to my co-authors @dvladek.bsky.social and Alessio Gandelli from @uuinfolab.bsky.social !
#ComputationalSocialScience #OnlineSocialNetworks
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Our new study provides the first large-scale look at how collective action is expressed in spoken digital discourse, using #BlackLivesMatter as a case study.
Many thanks to @ariannapera.bsky.social @dvladek.bsky.social @lajello.bsky.social for the collab
Check it out: arxiv.org/abs/2509.13197
Many thanks to @ariannapera.bsky.social @dvladek.bsky.social @lajello.bsky.social for the collab
Check it out: arxiv.org/abs/2509.13197
Podcasts as a Medium for Participation in Collective Action: A Case Study of Black Lives Matter
We study how participation in collective action is articulated in podcast discussions, using the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement as a case study. While research on collective action discourse has pr...
arxiv.org
September 18, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Our new study provides the first large-scale look at how collective action is expressed in spoken digital discourse, using #BlackLivesMatter as a case study.
Many thanks to @ariannapera.bsky.social @dvladek.bsky.social @lajello.bsky.social for the collab
Check it out: arxiv.org/abs/2509.13197
Many thanks to @ariannapera.bsky.social @dvladek.bsky.social @lajello.bsky.social for the collab
Check it out: arxiv.org/abs/2509.13197
Last week we have been at the International Tutorial and Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics and Democracy to present our work on visual political communication. Thanks to the organisers for the invitation! @susanly.bsky.social @lorenzo-mannocci.bsky.social aidem2025.isti.cnr.it
September 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Last week we have been at the International Tutorial and Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics and Democracy to present our work on visual political communication. Thanks to the organisers for the invitation! @susanly.bsky.social @lorenzo-mannocci.bsky.social aidem2025.isti.cnr.it
Our article on population-scale networks of social opportunities constructed from administrative data is now available online: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
August 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Our article on population-scale networks of social opportunities constructed from administrative data is now available online: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
This week we are at the Comp. Visual Media Research Symposium in Zurich, with @matiaspiqueras.bsky.social presenting his work on visual structured topic modelling. @lrossi.bsky.social is also presenting recent results based on joint work on LLMs and social image clustering (osf.io/preprints/so...).
August 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM
This week we are at the Comp. Visual Media Research Symposium in Zurich, with @matiaspiqueras.bsky.social presenting his work on visual structured topic modelling. @lrossi.bsky.social is also presenting recent results based on joint work on LLMs and social image clustering (osf.io/preprints/so...).
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July 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
We welcome Dariia Puhach as a new research assistant at the lab. Dariia will work as part of the PolarVis project to develop a method for the computational analysis of visual climate narratives.
July 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
We welcome Dariia Puhach as a new research assistant at the lab. Dariia will work as part of the PolarVis project to develop a method for the computational analysis of visual climate narratives.
This week many of us are in Norrköping for the International Conference on Computational Social Science. In the thread, a list of our presentations. #ic2s2
July 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This week many of us are in Norrköping for the International Conference on Computational Social Science. In the thread, a list of our presentations. #ic2s2
Two PolarVis presentations this week: (1) on the (mis)uses of VLLMs for analysing climate change visuals, today at the CCVision Network Meeting, and (2) on methods for longitudinal coordination detection applied to PolarVis data, tomorrow at SunBelt. @lrossi.bsky.social @matmagnani.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Two PolarVis presentations this week: (1) on the (mis)uses of VLLMs for analysing climate change visuals, today at the CCVision Network Meeting, and (2) on methods for longitudinal coordination detection applied to PolarVis data, tomorrow at SunBelt. @lrossi.bsky.social @matmagnani.bsky.social
This week we are at #ICWSM, with @giorgospanay.bsky.social talking about representational fairness in graph community detection.
The challenges of measuring representational fairness of graph community detection algorithms by @giorgospanay.bsky.social at DETOX #ICWSM.
June 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This week we are at #ICWSM, with @giorgospanay.bsky.social talking about representational fairness in graph community detection.
This week we are at SunBelt, in Paris - starting today with a tutorial on multiplex social network analysis.
June 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This week we are at SunBelt, in Paris - starting today with a tutorial on multiplex social network analysis.