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| Jul 2026 | New paper out in Political Communication! Common Identities and Political Talk: Evaluating Cross-Cutting Political Discussions in Sports Communities on Reddit. |
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| Jul 2026 | New paper out in New Media & Society with Talia, Tamar, and Sunny! A Cross-Country Examination of Normative Expectations of Social Media Platforms. |
| Jul 2026 | New paper out in Social Media + Society with Tejasvi! Divisive or Bridging? Personal Stories in Cross-Cutting Political Discussions on Reddit. |
| May 2026 | New paper out in ICWSM: Shifting Gatekeeping Practices and Audience Engagement Under AI-Assisted Comment Moderation. |
| Jun 2025 | Delighted to receive a Top Paper Award at ICA’s computational methods division for our work on personal narratives in cross-partisan online interactions. Congrats Tejasvi, my co-author on this project! |
| May 2025 | Delighted to receive ACM WebSci’s Best paper award (honorable mention) this year for our paper on personal narratives! Congrats Tejasvi, our lead author! |
| Mar 2025 | 🚨Come work with me!🚨 I am looking to hire a fulltime predoctoral fellow with solid programming/ML experience to work with me on projects related to media and politics. Would be ideal for someone interested in conducting research and planning to apply to PhD programs in the next cycle. [position closed] |
| Mar 2025 | Delighted to receive WSDM’s test-of-time award this year for our 2015 paper on sarcasm detection which was based on my Master’s thesis! |
| Feb 2025 | We have two papers accepted at Web Sci’25, one on conflict news framing in Indian Elections news and the other on the link between personal narratives and inclusion in political discussions. Both projects were led by Tejasvi Chebrolu, a visiting master’s student at UT from IIIT Hyderabad! |