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What is it about computational communication science?Author: Emese Domahidi & Mario Haim
As "big data" and "algorithms" affect our daily communication, lots of new research questions arise at the intersection between societies and technologies, asking for human wellbeing in times of permanent smartphone usage or the role of huge platforms for our news environment. The growing discipline of Computational Communication Science (CCS) takes on a combinatory perspective between social and computer science. In this podcast, Emese Domahidi (@MissEsi) and Mario Haim (@DrFollowMario) open this discussion for students and young scholars, one guest and one question at a time. Language: en Genres: Science, Social Sciences Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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#aBitOfCCS on Coordinated Disinformation in the Age of AI with Miriam Milzner & Daniel Thiele hosted by Jana Bernhard-Harrer
Episode 22
Wednesday, 11 March, 2026
In this episode of the #aBitOfCCS Podcast, Jana Bernhard-Harrer talks to Miriam Milzner and Daniel Thiele from the Weizenbaum Institute’s research group on the Dynamics of Digital Mobilisation about detecting coordinated online manipulation in the era of generative AI.They introduce coorsim, an open-source R package that identifies semantically similar coordinated posting—addressing a key limitation of traditional tools that rely on identical or near-identical text. Evaluated across 15 international influence operations, coorsim demonstrates how embedding-based similarity and coordination-sensitive clustering can uncover sophisticated campaigns, even when content is linguistically diverse. The episode also explores an example of coordinated activity during the climate summits COP26 and COP27, drawing on over 5.8 million tweets. Miriam and Daniel reflect on how coordinated campaigns shape climate debates—and what this means for research on disinformation in the age of LLMs.GitHub Repository: https://github.com/thieled/coorsimEmailMiriam: miriam.milzner@fu-berlin.deEmail Daniel: daniel.thiele@fu-berlin.de
