Talks and Events – David Garcia

13 April 2022, David Garcia. Overcoming the methodological deficits of Computational Social Science. ZING Seminar, ETH Zurich.
16 March 2022, David Garcia. Overcoming the methodological deficits of Computational Social Science. Bristol & Bath Psychology Seminar.
14 January 2022, David Garcia. Measuring large-scale emotion aggregates through social media text. AICE seminar, University of Amsterdam.
14 October 2021, David Garcia. Inaugural lecture (Antrittsvorlesung), TU Graz.
29 July 2021, David Garcia. Measuring large-scale emotion aggregates through social media text. Keynote at the International Conference in Computational Social Science, Zurich, Online
24 June 2021, David Garcia. The politicisation of medical topics on social media. Keynote at the Political Networks Workshop at NetSci, Online
9 June 2021, David Garcia. Computational Social Science: Studying Human Behavior through digital traces. Ringvorlesung Vielfalt im Zentrum der Forschung, Graz.
20 May 2021, David Garcia. The politicisation of medical topics on social media. Tech + Democracy Seminar Series, University of London, Online
4 May 2021, David Garcia. Introduction to Computational Social Science. Social Media Technologies Course, Online
9 Dec 2020, Hannah Metzler. Collective emotions during the COVID-19 outbreak. Computational Social Science Satellite of the Conference on Complex Systems 2020, Online
30 Nov 2020, David Garcia. Analyzing complex social phenomena through social media data. Tutorial at Complex Networks 2020, Online
12 Nov 2020, David Garcia. Computational Social Science: Studying Human
Behavior through digital traces. Psychology Colloquium of the University of Vienna.
10 Nov 2020, David Garcia. Managing online discourse panel. SciBeh Virtual Workshop
27 Oct 2020, David Garcia. Computational Social Science: Understanding Human Behavior in the Digital Society. Cognitive Science Lecture Series, University of Vienna.
16 Oct 2020, David Garcia. Computational Social Science: Understanding Human Behavior in the Digital Society. Interdisciplinary Data Science Lecture Series, Vienna University of Technology.
29 June 2020, David Garcia. Computational affective science – Understanding emotions through digital traces. Old Scripts in New Digital Age Lecture Series. University of Hamburg, Germany
19 Nov 2019, David Garcia. Complex Privacy and Collective Decisions in the Platform Society. MeI Cog Sci Lecture series, Vienna, Austria
20 Oct 2019, David Garcia. Online Privacy as a Complex Phenomenon. Privacy and Sustainable Computing Seminar. Economics University of Vienna, Austria
18 Oct 2019, David Garcia. Collective Emotions and Social Resilience after a Terrorist Attack. Computational Text Analysis Workshop, Norrköping, Sweden
17 Oct 2019, David Garcia. Analyzing Human Behavior Through Digital Traces. Analytical Sociology Insitute Seminar, Norrköping, Sweden
16 Oct 2019, Simon Schweighofer. A Balance Model of Opinion Hyperpolarization. Conference on Information Theory and Complex Systems. Belgrade, Serbia
17 Sep 2019, David Garcia. Analyzing Affect Through Social Media. Keynote talk at the Odycceus Summer School. Venice, Italy
4 Sep 2019, Simon Schweighofer. A Balance Model of Opinion Hyperpolarization. European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science. Zurich, Switzerland
2-4 Sep 2019, David Garcia: Chair of the European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science. Zurich, Switzerland
2 Sept 2019, Max Pellert. Emotion dynamics in social media. EuroCSS Science Slam. Zurich, Switzerland
2 Sept 2019, Simon Schweighofer and Ancsa Hannak. Organizers of the Machine Behavior Dataset Challenge. Zurich, Switzerland
8 Aug 2019, Anna Di Natale. Text analysis with colexification clusters. European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information. Riga, Latvia
20 July, Simon Schweighofer. A Balance Model of Opinion Hyperpolarization. IC2S2, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
20 July, David Garcia. Collective Emotions and Social Resilience in the Digital Traces After a Terrorist Attack. IC2S2, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
19 July 2019, Max Pellert. Emotional expression dynamics in social media. IC2S2, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
18 July 2019, Anna Di Natale. Subcritical Social Impact and Sentiment in Twitter. IC2S2, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
12 July 2019, Max Pellert. Analysing affective dynamics through sentiment in social media status updates. ISRE 2019, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
12 July 2019, David Garcia. Collective Emotions and Social Resilience in the Digital Traces After a Terrorist Attack. ISRE 2019, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
11 July 2019, Simon Schweighofer. Emotions first and last: Positional patterns in written communication across cultures. ISRE 2019, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
11 June 2019, Ancsa Hannak and David Garcia. Organizers of the fifth ICWSM Science Slam, Munich, Germany
22 Apr 2019, David Garcia. Collective Emotions and Social Resilience in the Digital Traces After a Terrorist Attack. Stockholm Resilience Centre Seminar, Stockholm, Sweden
12 Apr 2019, David Garcia. Collective Emotions and Social Resilience in the Digital Traces After a Terrorist Attack. April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. Moscow, Russia
7 Feb 2019, David Garcia. Collective Emotions and Social Resilience in the Digital Traces After a Terrorist Attack. Affective Brain Lab Seminar, UCL, London, UK
11 Jan 2019, David Garcia. Online Privacy as a Collective Phenomenon. Workshop on Human-Machine Ecology. Princeton University, US
5 Dec 2018, Ancsa Hannak and David Garcia. Organizers of the Science Slam at the Second International Symposium on Computational Social Science, Cologne, Germany
15 Nov 2018, David Garcia. Analyzing Gender Inequality Through Large-scale Facebook Advertising Data. Economics Seminar, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
9 Nov 2018, David Garcia. Analyzing Gender Inequality Through Large-scale Facebook Advertising Data. Digital Traces Workshop, University of Bremen, Germany
7 Nov 2018, David Garcia. Computational Social Science Approaches to Cybersecurity. Berlin Science Week, Germany
30 Oct 2018, David Garcia. The Digital Traces of Collective Emotions. Mei Cog Sci Seminar, University of Vienna, Austria
24 Sept 2018, David Garcia. Analyzing Gender Inequality Through Large-scale Facebook Advertising Data. Conference on Complex Systems. Thessaloniki, Greece
6-7 Sept 2018, David Garcia. Machine Behavior Workshop. CSH Vienna, Austria
2 Aug 2018, David Garcia. Hitchhiker’s guide to affect detection from text. Summer School Series on Methods for Computational Social Science. Los Angeles, USA
11 Apr 2018, David Garcia. Remote sensing drought through social media. General Assembly of the European Geoscience Union, Vienna, Austria
13 Mar 2018, David Garcia. Collective emotions and social resilience in the digital traces after a terrorist attack. University of Uppsala, Sweden
3 Mar 2018, David Garcia. Affective intelligence in online political discussion forums. Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Atlanta, USA
1 Mar 2018, David Garcia. Affective language analysis in computational social science. Psychology of Language Preconference, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Atlanta, USA
11 Jan 2018, David Garcia. The Digital traces of collective emotions. How stable are democracies? — Complex systems perspectives on modern society. Bristol, UK
26 Oct 2017, David Garcia. Understanding the Web as a Complex System – Complexity Science meets Web Science” Web Science meets Complexity Science Workshop. CSH Vienna
23 Oct 2017, David Garcia. Digital traces of collective emotions. Research Summit Series Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria
14 Sep 2017, David Garcia. Evaluative patterns and incentives in YouTube. International Conference on Social Informatics. Oxford, UK
11 Jul 2017, David Garcia. Understanding social influence and inactivity patterns in the Twitter society. International Conference on Computational Social Science, Cologne, Germany
5 Jul 2017, David Garcia. Collective Emotions, Collective Gatherings, and Emotional Synchronization. 18th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Granada, Spain
15 Dec 2016, David Garcia. Computational Social Science: Understanding human behavior through digital traces. University of Turku, Finland
4 Nov 2016, David Garcia. Can informational self-determination be guaranteed in the age of big data? Risk Center workshop, Zurich, Switzerland
5 Oct 2016, David Garcia. Online collective responses to the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks. Annual conference of the association of Internet researchers, Berlin, Germany
23 Sep 2016, David Garcia. Understanding popularity, reputation and social influence in the Twitter Society. Internet, Policy, and Politics Conference, Oxford, UK
2 Jun 2016, David Garcia. Modeling and analysis of emotions in online interaction. Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA
25 May 2016, David Garcia. How group identity and human-computer interaction shape online communication. Invited lecture at the Culture Analytics IPAM workshop, Los Angeles, USA
19 May 2016, David Garcia. The Dynamics of Emotions in Online Interaction. ICWSM 2016, Cologne, Germany
15 Apr 2016, David Garcia. The QWERTY effect on the web: How typing shapes the meanings of words in online human-computer interaction. WWW Conference, Montreal, Canada
12 Apr 2016, David Garcia. Geography of emotion: Where in a city are people happier? MSM Workshop at WWW Conference, Montreal, Canada
24 Feb 2016, David Garcia. Understanding human emotions and social interaction through the lens of computational social science. Invited lecture at the Karlsruhe Service Summit, Karlsruhe, Germany
29 Sep 2015, David Garcia. Assessing Gender Inequality in Wikipedia. Keynote talk at “Wikipedia, who talks about what?” conference, Geneva, Switzerland
17 Sep 2015, David Garcia. Polarization and Emotions in the Bitcoin Ecosystem. Computer Science Seminar, UC3M, Madrid, Spain
15 Sep 2015, David Garcia. Trading and social signals in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Computational Social Science seminar, GESIS, Cologne, Germany
4 Sep 2015, David Garcia. Monitoring and analyzing political activity in social media. NZZ Hack Days, Zürich, Switzerland
25 Sep 2015, David Garcia. The digital traces of human emotions. European Researcher’s Night, Vienna, Austria
8 Jul 2015, David Garcia. The positivity offset and the negativity bias of emotions in online communities. Plenary meeting of the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE), Geneva, Switzerland
15 Jun 2015, David Garcia. Online Social Network Privacy as a Collective Phenomenon. Data For Policy conference, Cambridge, UK
11 Jun 2015, David Garcia. Gender Asymmetries in Reality and Fiction: The Bechdel Test of Social Media. International Conference on Computational Social Science (ICCSS), Helsinki, Finland
10 Jun 2015, David Garcia. Trading and social signals in the Bitcoin ecosystem. International Conference on Computational Social Science (ICCSS), Helsinki, Finland
22 Apr 2015, David Garcia. Online Privacy as a Collective Phenomenon. Skeptiker Slam, Zürich, Switzerland
17 Dec 2014, David Garcia. The Digital Traces of Individual and Collective Emotions. CISA seminar, Affective Sciences Centre, University of Geneva, Switzerland
3 Oct 2014, David Garcia. Computational Social Science: Studying and Modelling Humans Through Their Digital Traces. Bell Labs, Dublin, Ireland
1 Oct 2014, David Garcia. Online Privacy as a Collective Phenomenon. 2nd ACM Conference on Online Social Networks, Dublin, Ireland
26 Sep 2014, David Garcia. Network Polarization in Online Politics Participatory Media. Internet, Policy, and Politics Conference, Oxford, UK
8 Sep 2014, David Garcia. Political Activity and Network Polarization in Online Participatory Media. GESIS seminar, Cologne, Germany
6 Jun 2014, David Garcia. Quantitative Analysis and Modeling of Collective Emotions in Online Communities. Reading Emotions Conference, Zurich, Switzerland
2 Jun 2014, David Garcia. Gender Asymmetries in Reality and Fiction: The Bechdel Test of Social Media. 8th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
22 May 2014, David Garcia. Gender Asymmetries in Reality and Fiction. ETH Science Slam, Zurich, Switzerland
10 May 2014, David Garcia. Political Activity and Polarization in Politnetz and Twitter. Study Group: Dynamics of Collective Decisions. HWK Delmenhorst, Germany
25 Apr 2014, David Garcia. Analisis de Polarizacion, Desigualdad y Resiliencias Social a Traves de Huellas Digitales. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
9 Apr 2014, David Garcia. Gender Asymmetries in Reality and Fiction. EurAxess Roadshow Science Slam, Zurich, Switzerland
28 Mar 2014, David Garcia. Understanding Collective Emotions in Online Communities Through Agent-Based Modeling. Consortium of European Research on Emotion Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
9 Oct 2013, David Garcia. Measuring Social Resilience and Polarization Through Digital Traces: The Autopsy of Friendster and the Eurovision Crisis. CCNR seminar, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
7 Oct 2013, David Garcia. Social resilience in online communities: The autopsy of Friendster. 1st ACM Conference in Online Social Networks, Northeastern University, Boston
2 Oct 2013, David Garcia. The Role of Emotions in Contributors Activity: A Case Study of the Gentoo Community. 3rd International Conference on Social Computing and Its Applications, Karlsruhe, Germany
20 Sept 2013, David Garcia. The Digital Traces of Social Resilience. Scientifica Zelt at Polyterrasse, Zurich, Switzerland
30 Aug 2013, David Garcia. Political alignment and emotional expression in Spanish Tweets. Workshop in Sentiment Analysis, Madrid, Spain
11 Jun 2013, David Garcia. Political Polarization in Participatory Media. Non-Equilibrium Social Science Conference (NESS), ISCTE Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal
7 Jun 2013, David Garcia. Collective Emotions in the Internet Society. Global Brain Institute – Vrije Universieit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
16 May 2013, David Garcia. The world between LOL and WTF: The digital traces of human emotions. ETH Science Slam
30 Jan 2013, David Garcia. A modelling framework for collective emotions in online communities. Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
8 Nov 2013, David Garcia. Modeling Online Collective Emotions. Computer science seminar, Stanford University. Palo Alto, USA
2 Nov 2012, David Garcia. Political Polarization and Popularity in Online Participatory Media: An Integrated Approach. Workshop on Politic, Elections, and Data. 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’12), Maui, USA
23 Sep 2012, David Garcia. Measuring the dynamics of individual emotions under online interaction through subjective and physiological responses. Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) 52nd annual meeting, New Orleans, USA
7 Sep 2012, David Garcia. Information content and emotional expression: positive words carry less information. European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS’12), Brussels, Belgium
28 July 2011, David Garcia. Emotional communication patterns in online chat communities. Plenary meeting of the International Society for Research on Emotion, Kyoto, Japan
23 Nov 2010, David Garcia. Modeling Collective Emotions in Online Communities. Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
29 Oct 2010, David Garcia. Modeling Collective Emotions in Online Communities. Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Madrid, Spain