Happy to announce our workshop on Social Cybersecurity (October 13th, Uppsala) as a satellite event of the Swedish e-Science Academy. If you are interested in presenting (format TBD) feel free to contact me or @ingakwoh.bsky.social More info here ➡️ uucsslab.github.io/events/scs-2...

📢 New paper out in EPJ Data Science! "Influence of the majority group on individual judgments in online spontaneous conversations" doi.org/10.1140/epjd...

Influence of the majority group on individual judgments in online spontaneous conversations - EPJ Data Science

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-conformity, we analyze everyday dilemmas discussed on social media. First, using digital traces to operationalize judgments, we measure the conversations’ disagreement and apply Bayesian regression to capture shifts of judgments formation before and after the group’s exposure. Then we analyze changes in judgment expression with a linguistic analysis of the motivations associated with each judgment. Results show anti-conformity behaviors: individuals preserve the majority’s positive or negative orientation of judgments but diverge from its stance, with persuasive language increasing post-disclosure. Our findings highlight how online environments reshape social influence compared to offline contexts.

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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

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🚨 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

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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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...

So glad for the support I received🙏🏻 I met so many interesting people, had fruitful discussions and so much fun! Special thank to my supervisors @dvladek.bsky.social @calikus.bsky.social , to my amazing colleagues @uuinfolab.bsky.social and … [comments]

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.

I’m presenting my poster today at @ic2s2.bsky.social ! Me and my coauthors from @uuinfolab.bsky.social will be around and happy to answer your questions. Join board n.26 and enjoy the discussion! #ic2s2

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Identifying linguistic strategies of emotional manipulation in online discussions Diletta Goglia, Davide Vega, Ece Calikus Session: Posters III (Atrium) 24 Jul 2025, 13:30 – 14:30

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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

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

@netsciconf.bsky.social #NetSci25 poster session: cool discussions with @elisalvai.bsky.social from @nerdsitu.bsky.social 🥳

After 3 packed days of research, workshops, and networking, #COMPTEXT2025 has officially wrapped up! In 48+ panels, 220+ presentations, and a full day of tutorials we received a great review of the state-of-the-art in our field. Thanks everyone and see you next year!

Afternoon workshops at #COMPTEXT2025 wrapped up with in-depth sessions on narrative analysis, researcher access under the DSA, concept measurement, and efficient LLM training. Thanks to @mariaa.bsky.social, @dscheykopp.bsky.social, @haukelicht.bsky.social, @cklamm.bsky.social and all participants!