📍Last week at the Social Simulation Conference 2026 in Durham! 🎤 Our lab members @anniewald.bsky.social, @maikovska.bsky.social, and @aytalina.bsky.social presented research from the projects @what-if-horizon.bsky.social and Social Issue Emergence in the Hybrid Media System 🚀 And more ahead!

Huge congrats to Paul Balluff on successfully defending his dissertation “Applications of Transformer Models in Communication Research”! 🎉 compcommlab.univie.ac.at/news-detaila...

Successful CCL Thesis Defense!

We congratulate our lab member Paul Balluff! He has successfully defended his thesis.

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Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

Having so much fun at #langenachtderforschung 🥳 @anniewald.bsky.social @hajoboo.bsky.social @aytalina.bsky.social @gruenika.bsky.social

Happening tonight! #LangeNachtderForschung @univie.ac.at ✨ Play with our simulation model and learn how social issues compete for public attention 👇 Shout-out to our collaborator Leon Olszewski from @tuwien.at! Find @maikovska.bsky.social @aytalina.bsky.social & myself in main building booth C04.

This Friday, 24 April 2026, meet CCL at #LangeNachtderForschung @univie.ac.at main building: 📍C04: How do social issues compete for public attention? 📍H01: What changes when we listen to literature? 📍E03: How do political emotions shape climate communication? Find us 👇

📢 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

Connective action and digital repression during China’s COVID-19 protests: a computational analysis of multilingual coordinated activity on Twitter - EPJ Data Science

In authoritarian contexts, social media serve as critical platforms for coordinating both protest and repression. This study centers on the unprecedented COVID-19 protests in the People’s Republic of ...

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@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

Wie konkurrieren soziale Themen um öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit? - #LNF26 Lange Nacht der Forschung

Warum setzen sich manche Themen in der Öffentlichkeit durch – während andere rasch verschwinden? An dieser Station interagieren Sie mit einer Computersimulation und erfahren, wie Aufmerksamkeit in soz...

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Are you applying computational methods in your research or thinking about starting a lab? Join 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

Was happy to present my work in progress in such a stimulating and thought-provoking environment.

Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL)@compcommlab.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This week, our colleagues @maikovska.bsky.social and @aytalina.bsky.social presented their ongoing work involving agent-based modeling at the Graz Schumpeter Winter School themed “Modeling Opinion Dynamics and Social Change” 👏👏

Every strong team needs time to pause, reset, and grow together. #TeamRetreat #DientenAmHochkönig

🔴 Russian forces conducted one of the biggest combined attacks on Ukraine during this month. The attack lasted 13 hours, targeting Kyiv, Starokostiantyniv, and Donetsk region.

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🔴 Russian forces deliberately targeted a residential building with a "doube-tap" strike during the latest attack, CCTV footage shows. After the first missle struck, moments later a second one hit the same building.

❗️Our next workshop will be on August 14, 6 pm CEST, on marginaleffects package by @vincentab.bsky.social ! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

A regular reminder that if you want to support Ukrainian air defense to protect people from being killed by a kamikaze drones in their sleep you can donate here: savelife.in.ua/second-front... #UAView

An outstanding keynote of historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social on the significance of the Ukrainian history for understanding global history and how it contextualizes the current Russia's invasion of Ukraine youtu.be/Xc64yG8TPzM?...

Keynote: Why should we know the history of Ukraine?

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Our team members @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @moritzsedlatschek.bsky.social have presented their fantastic work at the CSS conference on „AI & Society - Exploring Inequality in the Digital Age“ in Mannheim. Very well done! 👏

My personal highlight of #COMPTEXT2025 😊

Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam@ahrabhikat.bsky.social · last yr.

This was a blast! Really enjoyed discussing bias in knowledge production, LLMs and CSS in general with @krangelie.bsky.social and @indiiigo.bsky.social! Thank you @comptext.bsky.social and @compcommlab.bsky.social for providing space for these important topics! 🙌

Where does the bias hide? 🔎 Let's discuss the applicability of multimodal models for clustering multilingual SM data w @daweg.bsky.social @nadjaoz.bsky.social @hdnrch.bsky.social Sunny Yang @tristancann.bsky.social Chair @hajoboo.bsky.social An awesome panel to end #COMPTEXT2025 ! ✍️

How can we better capture marginalised voices through computational text analysis? An inspiring roundtable at #COMPTEXT2025 sparked important reflections. Huge thanks to @ahrabhikat.bsky.social, @krangelie.bsky.social, @indiiigo.bsky.social for guiding this vital conversation!

Loved the roundtable led by @ahrabhikat.bsky.social "Marginalised Voices and Perspectives in Computational Text Analysis" /w @krangelie.bsky.social & @indiiigo.bsky.social Everyone was taking notes! ✍️ #COMPTEXT2025

What a great panel on media bias & misinformation at #COMPTEXT2025 Investigating political sentiment, ownership influence & public engagement with @lucas-p-dasilva.bsky.social @janabernhard.bsky.social @ahrabhikat.bsky.social @hajoboo.bsky.social Patrick Walkowiak @saminenno.bsky.social Jiyoung Lee

How the dynamics of media coverage change as a result of the interplay between issues and actors? @janabernhard.bsky.social shows in an excellent comp text analysis study on media bias in 🇦🇹 news before the 2024 Austrian elections. /w @ahrabhikat.bsky.social & @hajoboo.bsky.social #COMPTEXT2025

Discussing multimodal and network-based research of #PolCom at #COMPTEXT2025 🕸 @nicolarighetti.bsky.social presented the CooRTweet R package /w Paul Balluff.🔎 And more great studies and insights from Hubert Plisiecki, Wies Ruyters, David Spitzenberg! 👏 Chaired by @anniewald.bsky.social

@nicolarighetti.bsky.social is presenting CooRTweet R package co-authored w/ Paul Balluff ✨ The package helps to detect and analyze coordinated networks across various platforms! #COMPTEXT2025 Check it out 👇 doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Excellent computational research on the Russia-Ukraine war 📊🔎 Multiple perspectives & exciting results by Mykola Makhortykh, @aytalina.bsky.social, & @maikovska.bsky.social, Elizaveta Chernenko, Valentina Feklyunina & @maarja.bsky.social , Julian Theseira. Chair @stauberj.bsky.social #COMPTEXT2025

Today, russia heavily bombed Ukraine with an intense focus on Kyiv. 8 dead, 80 injured🕯 During the international discussions about a possible ceasefire, russia consistently shows its only true face — indiscriminate violence and terrorism. Donate to UA savelife.in.ua/en/ #RussiaIsATerroriStstate

⏰ Less than 2 days left! ⏰ Registration for #COMPTEXT2025 closes April 10 at 23:59 CEST! Join us in Vienna (April 24–26) for cutting-edge research on text-, image-, and video-as-data, hands-on workshops, and a brilliant community. Don't miss your chance—this is the final call! 🚂🧳 👉 bit.ly/4hJ7thP

❗️Our next workshop will be on April 10th, 6 pm CEST on Effective data viz in R in scientific contexts by @christiangebhard.com! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats #dataviz

Feels like air raid alerts in Kyiv are nightly. I checked: since the year’s start, only 13 nights were free of alerts, and each lasts about 131 minutes on average. Let’s see how the ceasefire goes, but meanwhile, please donate to air defense, links in the next reply. #UaView #RStats