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Diletta Goglia @dilettagoglia.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 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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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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Theodora Moldovan @theamoldovan.bsky.social · 20d

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

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...

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · 16d

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

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · Aug 24

Article: Anatomy of a Swedish population-scale network, by @giorgospanay.bsky.social , @ingakwoh.bsky.social, Miia Bask, Mikael Bask, Ilkka Mäkinen, and @matmagnani.bsky.social

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · Aug 24

We are happy that the group at @iasliu.bsky.social led by Károly Takács is also working on this type of data in Sweden, creating great conditions for the development of these studies in our country and future collaborations.

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · Aug 24

But this is just a first step towards answering the social scientific questions we are ultimately interested in, e.g. about social segregation in Sweden.

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · Aug 24

Our contribution gives some additional evidence that such networks can capture characteristics of the population they represent, while also highlighting assumptions, data quality issues, and the need for advances in multilayer network engineering (appliednetsci.springeropen.com/articles/10....).

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · Aug 24

This is an exciting topic, pioneered by the PopNet team (led by @franktakes.bsky.social and Eelke Heemskerk) and Statistics Netherlands (Jan van der Laan and Edwin de Jonge's poster at the #IC2S2 conference in 2019 is where we got the idea).

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · Aug 24

Our article on population-scale networks of social opportunities constructed from administrative data is now available online: www.nature.com/articles/s41....

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · Aug 6

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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Georgios Panayiotou @giorgospanay.bsky.social · Jul 24

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · Jul 23

@uuinfolab.bsky.social @ #ic2s2

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uuinfolab @uuinfolab.bsky.social · Jul 22

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.