Davide Vega

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...

🚨 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
@arxiv-cs-si.bsky.social

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...

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

Congrats to these awardees!

No better place than a Swedish #ic2s2 to present our population-scale network of Sweden! 🇸🇪

Very grateful to discuss ideas and challenges with colleagues (future collaborators?) working with similar data.

You can find our preprint here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

We did a thing, and we are presenting it today at the @ic2s2.bsky.social #IC2S2 poster session:

A model to study Manipulative Language.

Work led by @dilettagoglia.bsky.social, in collaboration with @calikus.bsky.social and myself. Find Diletta at poster #26.

@uuinfolab.bsky.social @ #ic2s2

Day 2 Keynotes kicked off with Laura Nelson's inspiring presentation, “Why Qualitative Research Needs Computational Social Science”. What is the state of this maturing field called qualitative computational methods? What are the ongoing debates and futures? #ic2s2

Photo of Stewart’s keynote

Now happening: keynote by Brandon Stewart! #ic2s2

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

Job alert! There is still some time to apply. If you are at @ic2s2.bsky.social feel free to send me a DM or say hi!

I will be at @ic2s2.bsky.social with the rest of the @uuinfolab.bsky.social team in a couple of weeks. Feel free to say hi if you are interested! We would love to hear what you have been up to

Postdoctoral position in Data Science with a focus on societal values The Department of Information Technology holds a leading position in both research and education at all levels. We are currently Uppsala University's third largest department, have around 350 employee

Interested in interdisciplinary research (incl. data science, network analysis) at the intersection of computign education research and social trends in digitalization? PostDoc call open/deadline Aug 4th uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... @icwsm.bsky.social @insna.bsky.social @wins-society.bsky.social

Congrats to the best SPCs and the best reviewers of this year! #icwsm

New preprint: we delve into the challenges of finding coordination in short-video platforms In this work led by @ingakwoh.bsky.social with @matmagnani.bsky.social and Alexandra Segerberg we propose a multimodal network-based method to identify possible coordination in TikTok arxiv.org/pdf/2506.05868

This week we had the pleasure to host our colleagues and friends from Università della Calabria. @luciolcw.bsky.social delivered a well-attended intensive course on Large Language Models, and Andrea Tagarelli presented the research done by his team. We look forward to new collaborations.

Congratulations to @giorgospanay.bsky.social for his half-time PhD seminar: "Fair and Scalable Multilayer Network Community Detection".

Congratulations to @theamoldovan.bsky.social, who defended her Master's thesis: "Exploring Collective Action in Black Lives Matter Podcast Conversations".

Thanks for the visit! It was a pleasure hearing all the cool things you hace been doing. See you soon!

Yesterday @lajello.bsky.social and I had the opportunity to present our work on the language of collective action at the CSS Seminar Series at @uu.se 🇸🇪
Big thanks to Matteo Magnani and @dvladek.bsky.social for inviting us, and to the whole UUInfolab for the warm welcome and insightful conversations!

Announced CIM projects 2025 - Uppsala University

Open PhD positions at Uppsala University on interdisciplinary mathematics projects - including our project on #networkscience & #datauncertainty (project 9) www.uu.se/en/centre/in...