New article out: The seven roles of generative AI: Potential & pitfalls in combatting misinformation. Thomas Nygren, Emily R. Spearing, Nicolas Fay, Davide Vega, Isabella I. Hardwick, Jon Roozenbeek, and Ullrich K. H. Ecker. doi.org/10.1177/2379...

We welcome @theamoldovan.bsky.social as a new PhD student at the lab! Theodora will work on fairness in social network analysis.

It's time for a few professional updates. Together with the team behind the PolarVis project and with @flxvctr.bsky.social we have been invited by @cais-research.bsky.social to organize three workshops in Bochum. The workshops - between February and May - will expand on our understanding o visual

New paper to be presented at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR): Gradient-Based Diversity Optimization with Differentiable Top-K Objective, by Tianyi Zhou, Sebastian Dalleiger, @calikus.bsky.social & Aristides Gionis. Available here: openreview.net/pdf?id=cuzWo...

New article out, led by @lorenzo-mannocci.bsky.social, moving towards the "unflattening" of the study of online coordination: "Multimodal Coordinated Online Behavior: Trade-offs and Strategies". Full text here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mUYo4ZQEN...

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

New article: "Climate Clash: A Multimodal Analysis of Movement–Countermovement Interactions in the Digital Sphere". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #polarvisproject @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social

We have an open PhD position on Fair Social Network Analysis (focused on method development but also on integrating social theory and real data analysis). Please consider applying if this is something of your interest or share this to potentially interested candidates. uuinfolab.github.io/joinus/

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We welcome @anmen.bsky.social as a new postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala University, Dept. of Information Technology, and as a new member of the InfoLab.

Congratulations to our @dvladek.bsky.social for being appointed Docent in Computer Science!

🚨 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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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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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

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

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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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.

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

Two PolarVis presentations this week: (1) on the (mis)uses of VLLMs for analysing climate change visuals, today at the CCVision Network Meeting, and (2) on methods for longitudinal coordination detection applied to PolarVis data, tomorrow at SunBelt. @lrossi.bsky.social @matmagnani.bsky.social

This week we are at #ICWSM, with @giorgospanay.bsky.social talking about representational fairness in graph community detection.

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The challenges of measuring representational fairness of graph community detection algorithms by @giorgospanay.bsky.social at DETOX #ICWSM.

This week we are at SunBelt, in Paris - starting today with a tutorial on multiplex social network analysis.