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Annie Waldherr

@anniewald.bsky.social

Professor of Computational Communication Science @univie.ac.at @compcommlab Public sphere, complexity, networks, data science.

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Annie Waldherr@anniewald.bsky.social · last mo.

Rudolphina, the Science Magazine of @univie.ac.at is featuring our @what-if-horizon.bsky.social, where we use #ABM and #LLM -powered simulations to explore civic engagement in digital information environments: rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/computer-... @aytalina.bsky.social @compcommlab.bsky.social

Computer models explore digital information environments to safeguard democracy

How do social media, algorithms and AI influence democratic discourse? Researchers at the University of Vienna are simulating digital information spaces to investigate ways of safeguarding democracy.

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Annie Waldherr@anniewald.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Getting this paper published was quite a ride. Thrilled to see it out now! 🎢 ✨ Analyzing ~740k coordinated tweets during China’s COVID-19 protests, we found communities amplifying protest, and others pushing repression through distracting and demoralizing content. Led by @aytalina.bsky.social 👏👏👏

aytalina@aytalina.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢 New publication! “Connective action and digital repression during China’s COVID-19 protests: a computational analysis of multilingual coordinated activity on Twitter" w/ brilliant Paul Balluff, @nicolarighetti.bsky.social, @anniewald.bsky.social out in EPJ Data Sci. Read #openaccess👇 rdcu.be/feZzK

Annie Waldherr@anniewald.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Come meet us at #LangeNachtderForschung tomorrow, and have fun playing with our simulation model 🤖▶️💡 @compcommlab.bsky.social @ipkw.bsky.social

Kateryna Maikovska 🇺🇦@maikovska.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@anniewald.bsky.social, @aytalina.bsky.social, and I present at the Long Night of Research!⚛️ How do social issues compete for public attention?🤔 You will learn via playing with an agent-based model 🤖🎲 langenachtderforschung.at/station/5656 📍24.04, 5-11 PM 📍Stand C04, Main Building of @univie.ac.at

Jen Pan@jenpans.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New study out in Nature Human Behaviour: 37 million US users were exposed to deceptive networks on Facebook & 3 million on Instagram during the 2020 elections—roughly 15% and 2% of active users. 🧵

WHAT-IF@what-if-horizon.bsky.social · 8mo ago

(How) can AI help build better online spaces? ✨ Last week, 16 researchers from 8 institutions gathered in Vienna to explore exactly that question. Between the Christmas markets, the WHAT-IF team discussed how LLMs can power agent-based simulations to tackle online hostility and harmful content 👇

Group picture of researchers at the WHAT-IF workshop in Vienna: Rupert Kiddle, David Garcia, Giordano de Marzo, Nikolaus Pöchhacker, Aytalina Kulichkina, Annie Waldherr, Taehee Kim, Jula Lühring, Max van Drunen, Wouter van Atteveldt, Sophie Reisinger, Max Pellert, Daisuke Nakamura, Constantine Boussalis
Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Dr. Daniela Dimitrova@profdimitrova.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🔍 Insightful piece debunking some of the "mythology” behind Big Data: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #commsky #polsky #bigdata

Rethinking Scaling Up Content Analysis: A Reappraisal of Justifications and Practices for Large-Scale Content Analysis - Maximilian Linde, Chung-hong Chan, Paul Balluff, 2025

The use of automated coding procedures to scale up content analysis has risen over the last years. Using a mixed-method approach, we examine researchers’ justif...

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@silviamajo.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Join us for the first Computational Methods Labs Showcase @icacm.bsky.social Registration is free and open to colleagues interested in computational methods! DM me if you have questions 1/2

aytalina@aytalina.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Are you applying computational methods in your research or thinking about starting a lab? Join us for the first Computational Methods Labs Showcase by the ICA CM Division @icacm.bsky.social 🌟 Online on Feb 16, 2026, 4:00–5:30 pm CET / 10:00–11:30 am EST 📆 Register 👇 forms.office.com/e/zHBkwUWNFw

Azade Kakavand (she/her)@azadekakavand.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📣 Das Social Media Observatory am @bredowinstitut.bsky.social und @fgz-risc.bsky.social lädt zum TikTok Starter Workshop ein! 🗓 Wann? 2.12. 13:00 - 3.12. 14:00 Uhr 🌐 Wo? Online (Zoom) 👨‍💻 mit @boesch.bsky.social, @julianhohner.bsky.social & @lionw.bsky.social Infos 👉 leibniz-hbi.de/hbi-events/t...

TikTok Starter Workshop

Das Social Media Observatory (SMO) des Hamburger Standorts des Forschungsinstituts Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt (FGZ) veranstaltet einen Starter Workshop zum Thema TikTok. Der Workshop findet onlin...

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Annie Waldherr@anniewald.bsky.social · 9mo ago

✨New preprint led by Jula Lühring! We found that news from untrustworthy sources elicit different forms of social media engagement than trustworthy news. Check out Jula‘s thread for more:

Jula Luehring@julaluehring.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Misinformation research has a causality problem: lab experiments are limited; observational studies confounded. We used causal inference on 9.9M tweets, quantifying effects in the wild while blocking backdoor paths. Does misinfo get higher engagement? Are following discussions more emotional? 🧵