🔍 Findings: systematic anti-conformity behavior. Users diverge from the majority stance, increasing persuasive language in their comments.
📊 We (1) measure conversations' disagreement, (2) build a Bayesian model, and (3) perform a linguistic analysis to capture shifts of judgments (and associated motivations) after the majority group's exposure.
Congratulations to @dilettagoglia.bsky.social for successfully presenting her half-time PhD seminar: "Computational methods for studying persuasion in online social communication"!
📢 We study how people form and express moral judgments in spontaneous online conversations in light of a revised social normative framework.
🚨 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
We measure disagreement in Reddit conversations and use Bayesian inference to capture shifts in users' judgments after exposure to the most popular opinion!
Special thanks to @dvladek.bsky.social and Alessio Gandelli!
@uuinfolab.bsky.social
#CSS #opinion_dynamic #social_influence
📢 New paper out in EPJ Data Science!
"Influence of the majority group on individual judgments in online spontaneous conversations" doi.org/10.1140/epjd...
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
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...
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/
