Arianna Pera

Reach me at arpe@itu.dk

Hi, welcome on my page ☀️

I am a PhD student in Computational Social Science at the IT University of Copenhagen in the NERDS research group. 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 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 and language that can lead to the emergence of collective efforts in the realm of social issues, 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 are natural language processing applied to social interactions, discourse frames used in digital communication, and social network analysis of online human behavior.

In my spare time, I enjoy baking (especially italian desserts 🇮🇹), running and playing board games.

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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!
Jan 20, 2025	I attended the first Conference on Computational Social Science CS2Italy in Trento 🇮🇹, during which the Society for Computational Social Science Italy has been established. It has been a pleasure to present my recent work on extracting participation in collective action from social media and my ongoing work on labor unions in the US and their digital communication strategies.
Sep 03, 2024	I have started my research stay at the University of Michigan as a visiting PhD student 🎉 Until Christmas, I will work with Ceren Budak on the social media communication of the labor movement in the US.
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
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!