Arianna Pera
Research Assistant @ University of Copenhagen · Denmark
Hi, welcome on my page ☀️
I am a Research Assistant at the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science and will soon start a Postdoc there. I was previously a PhD student at the IT University of Copenhagen in the NERDS research group, supervised by Prof. Luca Maria Aiello. I’ve been a visiting PhD student at the School of Information at the University of Michigan until December 2024, working with Ceren Budak.
My research is part of the Climate Advocates’ Media Portrayals (CAMP) research project, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) and led by Assistant Prof. Clara Vandeweerdt. My current focus is on studying bias in the representation of climate advocates in news media, as well as broader dynamics of climate action.
My research interests lie in the study of collective action dynamics, focusing on social and traditional media sources and applying natural language processing to study the link between the use of language and the emergence of collective behaviors and social network analysis to explore human interactions.
In my spare time, I enjoy baking (especially italian desserts 🇮🇹), running and knitting while listening to true crime podcasts.
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| Jan 15, 2026 | I started a new position as a Research Assistant at the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) 🎉 I will be working with Clara Vanderweerdt on exploring the bias in the representation of climate advocates in news media. Looking forward to this new chapter! |
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| Dec 31, 2025 | I submitted my PhD thesis, which will now be evaluated by the committee. Fingers crossed! |
| May 01, 2025 | I have started my research visit at the Central European University in Vienna, within the Networks and Data Science Department 🎉 Over the next month, I will work with Max Falkenberg exploring discourses of climate delay in the speeches of the UK Parliament. |
| Apr 15, 2025 | Our paper “Extracting Participation in Collective Action from Social Media” has been accepted to AAAI ICWSM 2025 🎉 Take a look at it here |
| Jan 24, 2025 | Yesterday I had the chance of giving a talk as part of the NetPlace Seminar Series. I gave an overview of my collaborative work on hidden swing voters in the Twitter discourse and had a very insightful conversation with the audience on impostor syndrome in academia and why we should think of the PhD as a marathon 🏃🏻♂️➡️ I am very grateful to the organizers for inviting me: this is such a great initiative for creating a community of young researchers in network science! |