Talks list

  • 28 March 2025, Text analysis of evidence and intuition in political communication. AI4DEBUNK BSC Symposium, Barcelona
  • 6 March 2025, Polarization and consensus: between online discussions and generative agents. Seminar of the Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning, University of Zurich
  • 18 February 2025, From Digital Traces to Generative Agents, Cognitive Science and Generative AI Seminar Birkbeck, London
  • 13 December 2024, Language Understanding as a Constraint on Consensus Size in LLM Societies. I2SC Lecture Series at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing of Saarland University, Saarbrücken
  • 8 December 2024, How digital traces and AI are helping us to understand collective emotions. Augmented Intelligence Workshop, Vienna
  • 5 December 2024, Analyzing gender inequality in digital traces and the technologies they power. Keynote talk at GENDER CAMPUS – Gender Inequality in Digital Spaces: Challenges and Pathways Forward, Zurich
  • 28 October 2024, Language Understanding as a Constraint on Consensus Size in LLM Societies. Computational Social Science Conference, Barcelona.
  • 9 October 2024, Computational Social Science: From Digital Traces to Generative Agents. Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen
  • 6 September 2024, AI in Computational Social Science: From Digital Traces to Generative Agents. Year Opening Keynote for the Master in Computational Social Science, UC3M, Madrid
  • 26 January 2024, Studying emotions at individual and collective levels with social media data. EPFL, Lausanne
  • 04 October 2023, Challenges and opportunities of social media data analysis for the social sciences. Keynote Talk at NETHIKE summer school, Castasegna
  • 13 September 2023, Unpacking polarization: Antagonism and Alignment in Signed Networks of Online Interaction. MMM ETHZ Workshop, Zurich
  • 19 July 2023, LEXpander: Applying colexification networks to automated lexicon expansion – Poster presentation at the International Conference on Computational Social Science, Copenhagen
  • 3 July 2023, Studying emotions at individual and collective levels with social media data. Colloquium of the Center for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior, Konstanz
  • 9 May 2023, Analyzing the language of populism in social media and parliamentary speeches. Inequality Cluster Colloquium, Konstanz
  • 16 March 2023, LEIA: Linguistic Embeddings for the Identification of Affect, University of Mannheim
  • 6 July 2022, Computational Affective Science Understanding Emotions in the Digital Society. SFI Complexity GAINs Summer School, Vienna
  • 27 June 2022, Combining survey and Big Data: The case of emotion macroscopes. Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, Paris
  • 13 April 2022, Overcoming the methodological deficits of Computational Social Science. ZING Seminar, ETH Zurich.
  • 16 March 2022, Overcoming the methodological deficits of Computational Social Science. Bristol & Bath Psychology Seminar.
  • 14 January 2022, Measuring large-scale emotion aggregates through social media text. AICE seminar, University of Amsterdam.
  • 29 July 2021, Measuring large-scale emotion aggregates through social media text. Keynote at the International Conference in Computational Social Science, Zurich, Online
  • 24 June 2021, The politicisation of medical topics on social media. Keynote at the Political Networks Workshop at NetSci, Online
  • 20 May 2021, The politicisation of medical topics on social media. Tech + Democracy Seminar Series, University of London, Online
  • 4 May 2021, Introduction to Computational Social Science. Social Media Technologies Course, Online
  • 30 Nov 2020, Analyzing complex social phenomena through social media data. Tutorial at Complex Networks 2020, Online
  • 12 Nov 2020, Computational Social Science: Studying Human
    Behavior through digital traces. Psychology Colloquium of the University of Vienna.
  • 10 Nov 2020,  Managing online discourse panel. SciBeh Virtual Workshop
  • 27 Oct 2020,  Computational Social Science: Understanding Human Behavior in the Digital Society. Cognitive Science Lecture Series, University of Vienna.
  • 16 Oct 2020,  Computational Social Science: Understanding Human Behavior in the Digital Society. Interdisciplinary Data Science Lecture Series, Vienna University of Technology.
  • 29 June 2020,  Computational affective science – Understanding emotions through digital traces. Old Scripts in New Digital Age Lecture Series. University of Hamburg, Germany
  • 19 Nov 2019,  Complex Privacy and Collective Decisions in the Platform Society. MeI Cog Sci Lecture series, Vienna, Austria
  • 20 Oct 2019, Online Privacy as a Complex Phenomenon. Privacy and Sustainable Computing Seminar. Economics University of Vienna, Austria
  • 18 Oct 2019,  Collective Emotions and Social Resilience after a Terrorist Attack. Computational Text Analysis Workshop, Norrköping, Sweden
  • 17 Oct 2019, Analyzing Human Behavior Through Digital Traces. Analytical Sociology Insitute Seminar, Norrköping, Sweden
  • 17 Sep 2019, Analyzing Affect Through Social Media. Keynote talk at the Odycceus Summer School. Venice, Italy
  • 20 July 2019, Collective Emotions and Social Resilience in the Digital Traces After a Terrorist Attack. IC2S2, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 12 July 2019, Collective Emotions and Social Resilience in the Digital Traces After a Terrorist Attack. ISRE 2019, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 22 Apr 2019, Collective Emotions and Social Resilience in the Digital Traces After a Terrorist Attack. Stockholm Resilience Centre Seminar, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 12 Apr 2019, 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, Collective Emotions and Social Resilience in the Digital Traces After a Terrorist Attack. Affective Brain Lab Seminar, UCL, London, UK
  • 11 Jan 2019, Online Privacy as a Collective Phenomenon. Workshop on Human-Machine Ecology. Princeton University, US
  • 15 Nov 2018, Analyzing Gender Inequality Through Large-scale Facebook Advertising Data. Economics Seminar, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
  • 9 Nov 2018, Analyzing Gender Inequality Through Large-scale Facebook Advertising Data. Digital Traces Workshop, University of Bremen, Germany
  • 7 Nov 2018, Computational Social Science Approaches to Cybersecurity. Berlin Science Week, Germany
  • 30 Oct 2018, The Digital Traces of Collective Emotions. Mei Cog Sci Seminar, University of Vienna, Austria
  • 24 Sept 2018, Analyzing Gender Inequality Through Large-scale Facebook Advertising Data. Conference on Complex Systems. Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 2 Aug 2018, Hitchhiker’s guide to affect detection from text. Summer School Series on Methods for Computational Social Science. Los Angeles, USA
  • 11 Apr 2018, Remote sensing drought through social media. General Assembly of the European Geoscience Union, Vienna, Austria
  • 13 Mar 2018, Collective emotions and social resilience in the digital traces after a terrorist attack. University of Uppsala, Sweden
  • 3 Mar 2018, Affective intelligence in online political discussion forums. Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Atlanta, USA
  • 1 Mar 2018, Affective language analysis in computational social science. Psychology of Language Preconference, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Atlanta, USA
  • 11 Jan 2018, The Digital traces of collective emotions. How stable are democracies? — Complex systems perspectives on modern society. Bristol, UK
  • 23 Oct 2017, Digital traces of collective emotions. Research Summit Series Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria
  • 14 Sep 2017, Evaluative patterns and incentives in YouTube. International Conference on Social Informatics. Oxford, UK
  • 11 Jul 2017, Understanding social influence and inactivity patterns in the Twitter society. International Conference on Computational Social Science, Cologne, Germany
  • 5 Jul 2017, Collective Emotions, Collective Gatherings, and Emotional Synchronization. 18th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Granada, Spain
  • 15 Dec 2016, Computational Social Science: Understanding human behavior through digital traces. University of Turku, Finland
  • 4 Nov 2016, Can informational self-determination be guaranteed in the age of big data? Risk Center workshop, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 5 Oct 2016, Online collective responses to the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks. Annual conference of the association of Internet researchers, Berlin, Germany
  • 23 Sep 2016,  Understanding popularity, reputation and social influence in the Twitter Society. Internet, Policy, and Politics Conference, Oxford, UK
  • 2 Jun 2016, Modeling and analysis of emotions in online interaction. Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA
  • 25 May 2016, How group identity and human-computer interaction shape online communication. Invited lecture at the Culture Analytics IPAM workshop, Los Angeles, USA
  • 19 May 2016, The Dynamics of Emotions in Online Interaction. ICWSM 2016, Cologne, Germany
  • 15 Apr 2016, 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, Geography of emotion: Where in a city are people happier? MSM Workshop at WWW Conference, Montreal, Canada
  • 24 Feb 2016, 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, Assessing Gender Inequality in Wikipedia. Keynote talk atWikipedia, who talks about what?” conference, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 17 Sep 2015, Polarization and Emotions in the Bitcoin Ecosystem. Computer Science Seminar, UC3M, Madrid, Spain
  • 15 Sep 2015, Trading and social signals in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Computational Social Science seminar, GESIS, Cologne, Germany
  • 4 Sep 2015, Monitoring and analyzing political activity in social media. NZZ Hack Days, Zürich, Switzerland
  • 25 Sep 2015, The digital traces of human emotions. European Researcher’s Night, Vienna, Austria
  • 8 Jul 2015, 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, Online Social Network Privacy as a Collective Phenomenon. Data For Policy conference, Cambridge, UK
  • 11 Jun 2015, Gender Asymmetries in Reality and Fiction: The Bechdel Test of Social Media. International Conference on Computational Social Science (ICCSS), Helsinki, Finland
  • 10 Jun 2015, Trading and social signals in the Bitcoin ecosystem. International Conference on Computational Social Science (ICCSS), Helsinki, Finland
  • 22 Apr 2015, Online Privacy as a Collective Phenomenon. Skeptiker Slam, Zürich, Switzerland
  • 17 Dec 2014, The Digital Traces of Individual and Collective Emotions. CISA seminar, Affective Sciences Centre, University of Geneva, Switzerland
  • 3 Oct 2014, Computational Social Science: Studying and Modelling Humans Through Their Digital Traces. Bell Labs, Dublin, Ireland
  • 1 Oct 2014, Online Privacy as a Collective Phenomenon. 2nd ACM Conference on Online Social Networks, Dublin, Ireland
  • 26 Sep 2014, Network Polarization in Online Politics Participatory Media. Internet, Policy, and Politics Conference, Oxford, UK
  • 8 Sep 2014, Political Activity and Network Polarization in Online Participatory Media. GESIS seminar, Cologne, Germany
  • 6 Jun 2014, Quantitative Analysis and Modeling of Collective Emotions in Online Communities. Reading Emotions Conference, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2 Jun 2014, 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, Gender Asymmetries in Reality and Fiction. ETH Science Slam, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 10 May 2014, Political Activity and Polarization in Politnetz and Twitter. Study Group: Dynamics of Collective Decisions. HWK Delmenhorst, Germany
  • 25 Apr 2014, Analisis de Polarizacion, Desigualdad y Resiliencias Social a Traves de Huellas Digitales. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  • 9 Apr 2014, Gender Asymmetries in Reality and Fiction. EurAxess Roadshow Science Slam, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 28 Mar 2014, Understanding Collective Emotions in Online Communities Through Agent-Based Modeling. Consortium of European Research on Emotion Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
  • 9 Oct 2013, 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, Social resilience in online communities: The autopsy of Friendster. 1st ACM Conference in Online Social Networks, Northeastern University, Boston
  • 2 Oct 2013, 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, The Digital Traces of Social Resilience. Scientifica Zelt at Polyterrasse, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 30 Aug 2013, Political alignment and emotional expression in Spanish Tweets. Workshop in Sentiment Analysis, Madrid, Spain
  • 11 Jun 2013, Political Polarization in Participatory Media. Non-Equilibrium Social Science Conference (NESS), ISCTE Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 7 Jun 2013, Collective Emotions in the Internet Society. Global Brain Institute – Vrije Universieit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
  • 16 May 2013, The world between LOL and WTF: The digital traces of human emotions. ETH Science Slam
  • 30 Jan 2013, A modelling framework for collective emotions in online communities. Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
  • 8 Nov 2013, Modeling Online Collective Emotions. Computer science seminar, Stanford University. Palo Alto, USA
  • 2 Nov 2012, 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, 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, Information content and emotional expression: positive words carry less information. European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS’12), Brussels, Belgium
  • 28 July 2011, Emotional communication patterns in online chat communities. Plenary meeting of the International Society for Research on Emotion, Kyoto, Japan
  • 23 Nov 2010, Modeling Collective Emotions in Online Communities. Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 29 Oct 2010, Modeling Collective Emotions in Online Communities. Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Madrid, Spain