Arianna Pera
PhD Student @ IT University of Copenhagen · Denmark
Hi, welcome on my page ☀️
I am a PhD student in Computational Social Science at the IT University of Copenhagen where I joined the NERDS research group. My research is part of the COllective COordination through Online Social media (COCOONS) research project, led by Prof. Luca Maria Aiello. My current focus is on identifying the prime elements in social interactions that can lead to the emergence of collective efforts towards finding solutions to social dilemmas, such as climate change.
I have gratuated from the MSc in Data Science at the University of Milano-Bicocca, with a thesis in the use of Natural Language Processing to explain biases in the online discourse, supervised by Prof. Matteo Luigi Palmonari.
My research interests span from natural language processing applied to social dimensions, to complex systems models of human behavior and online opinion dynamics.
In my spare time, I enjoy baking (especially italian desserts 🇮🇹), running and playing board games.
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| Mar 15, 2024 | Our paper “Narratives of Collective Action in YouTube’s Discourse on Veganism” has been accepted to AAAI ICWSM 2024 🎉 Take a look at it here |
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| Feb 19, 2024 | This week I will be in Turin 🇮🇹, visiting and giving talks on my PhD research on Wednesday at CENTAI and Friday at ISI Foundation. It’s going to be an exciting week! |
| Jan 31, 2024 | Our paper “Shifting Climates: Climate Change Communication from YouTube to TikTok” has been accepted to WebSci 2024 🎉 Take a look at it here |
| Jan 26, 2024 | Our paper “The Parrot Dilemma: Human-Labeled vs. LLM-augmented Data in Classification Tasks” has been accepted to EACL 2024 🎉 Take a at it here |
| Jan 25, 2024 | NetSciX 2024 🇮🇹 has been incredible! I have presented the ongoing work “The Storm Within: Hurricanes and Socio-Political Leaning in Climate Change Group Behavior”, and engaged with very interesting topics within the network science community. |