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Justin Ho @justinho.bsky.social · 28d

If you’re a member of the Computational Methods Division, please join me in my quest to help shape a community where all scholars feel welcomed and supported!

Justin Ho @justinho.bsky.social · 28d

As International Liaison, I will draw on these experiences to advocate for members from less-represented cultures, strengthen international connections, and support the development of research tools and infrastructures that reflect the diversity of scholars and cultures worldwide.

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Justin Ho @justinho.bsky.social · 28d

My work focuses on building equitable infrastructures: from creating multilingual news datasets that include developing countries to examining biases in large language models that disadvantage non-Western languages.

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Justin Ho @justinho.bsky.social · 28d

I’m honored to be a candidate for International Liaison of ICA’s Computational Methods Division!

My journey as a researcher has taken me across the world. These experiences have shown me how cultural and structural barriers shape the way knowledge is produced, shared, and recognized.

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Justin Ho @justinho.bsky.social · Jun 18

Happy to report that I successfully survived #ICA25 with my tiny budget of $100 for a week’s food. I would like to thank all the reception organisers for making this possible.

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Justin Ho @justinho.bsky.social · Jun 16

It was an extremely large room, many of us sit at the back

Justin Ho @justinho.bsky.social · Jun 16

One person, R Studio, live coding. This is such a beautiful way to do tool demo by @jbgruber.bsky.social #ica25

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · Jun 13

@justinho.bsky.social presenting some cool work on instagram image topic modelling in this impressive room at #ica25

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Justin Ho @justinho.bsky.social · Jun 10

You would have expected the official app of the largest organisation that studies media and communication to be able to handle line breaks. I have headache reading this… #ica25

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Justin Ho @justinho.bsky.social · May 12

In the article, I surveyed the pioneering works that used computational methods to address questions about nations and nationalism, and also propose a framework for future work to follow.

Justin Ho @justinho.bsky.social · May 12

If you are interested in studying nationalism computationally, this might be an article for you! I talk about a (sub-)field that arguably does not exist yet: computational nationalism studies.

Full article here: stateofnationalism.eu/article/comp...

Computational Methods and Nationalism Studies – The State of Nationalism

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Justin Ho @justinho.bsky.social · Apr 25

If you have heard enough what LLM can do at #COMPTEXT2025, let us tell you what LLMs CANNOT do in our panel: We don’t need no LLMs (Sat 2:45pm BIG Hörsaal).

I will present my work on the linguistic and contextual bias that I found in a boatload of LLMs (using over 120 different model setups).

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Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam @ahrabhikat.bsky.social · Apr 23

Absolutely excited to host a roundtable on "Marginalised Voices and Perspectives in Computational Text Analysis" featuring @krangelie.bsky.social and @indiiigo.bsky.social at #COMPTEXT2025 🙌

We'll explore how bias and marginalisation shape methods and models - and thus scientific quality!

The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · Apr 22

#COMPTEXT2025 is just 2 days away, and we cannot be more excited to meet all participants at the University of Vienna. Please find the updated and final program here: bit.ly/42WZKZa. Please find the city guide for your time in Vienna here: bit.ly/3RsZY3R See you later this week!

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Justin Ho @justinho.bsky.social · Mar 11

If the proposed cuts to higher education go through, the Netherlands could face a similar future. While Brexit is a done deal, the Netherlands still has a chance to change course. Join the strike.

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Justin Ho @justinho.bsky.social · Mar 11

Given Brexit, declining student numbers, and the resulting financial crisis, we knew this was going to happen; without sufficient funding, universities have to cut cost. Still, hearing it firsthand from people I know was sobering.

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Justin Ho @justinho.bsky.social · Mar 11

Last Wednesday, I had the opportunity to speak in a webinar for a group of colleagues from the UK. About ten people attended, and two of them shared that they had recently been laid off.

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Justin Ho @justinho.bsky.social · Jan 24

Please help distribute the survey with anyone whom might be interested!

Justin Ho @justinho.bsky.social · Jan 24

We expect the survey to take no more than 10 minutes. We will not collect any personal information, but there will be a field to leave your contact details if you are happy for us to contact you for further questions. The survey will remain open until 10 February.

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Justin Ho @justinho.bsky.social · Jan 24

The goal of the study is to write a guideline for best practices in using generative AI in research based on the consensus among the field (if any).

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Justin Ho @justinho.bsky.social · Jan 24

A few ASCoR colleagues and I are conducting a study on the usage and perception of generative AI in research among communication scholars (broadly construed) and the best practices to minimizing the risks of such use.

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Justin Ho @justinho.bsky.social · Jan 16

Happy to share that my colleagues and I will be presenting a paper on computational analysis of images and texts at ICA 2025. In the paper, we systematically evaluated six approahes that use LLM/LVM to study social media images. If you are interested, check this preview out:

Is a Picture Worth More than a Thousand Words? Computational Analysis of Images and Texts

A deep dive on the working paper, Is a Picture Worth More than a Thousand Words? Computational Analysis of Images and Texts, by Justin Chun-ting Ho, A. Marthe Möller, Joanna Strycharz, and Rhianne W. ...

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · Nov 21

PSA: to post to CSS feed, now use "compsocsci" rather css (we were getting all mixed in with the comicssky people
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Justin Ho @justinho.bsky.social · Nov 21

I have created this starter pack for computational social science, I am pretty sure it is not complete so drop me a dm and I will add you/your suggestions!

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Justin Ho @justinho.bsky.social · Nov 21

I will be presenting my project, comparative media dataset, which aims to curate a dataset of major outlets in every country in the world. Can’t wait to see you all in Utrecht!

Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · Nov 21

"Breaking out of the X matrix: Language models as foundation models for social science" is a talk I'll be giving at the @odissei.bsky.social conference on Dec 10 in Utrecht. odissei-data.nl/event/odisse...

ODISSEI Conference 2024 - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations

ODISSEI is hosting its next live conference in de Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, on 10 December 2024. This conference seeks to bring together a community of computational social scientists to discuss data, metho...

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Justin Ho @justinho.bsky.social · Oct 9

Why?!

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