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Wouter van Atteveldt

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Professor of Computational Communication Science @VU University, tidyverse evangelist, good weather sailor

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WHAT-IF @what-if-horizon.bsky.social · Feb 3

Hello world! Meet our consortium—15 organizations, 10 countries—joining forces to rethink the digital political information space. 🚀

Last week, we kicked off our project WHAT-IF, setting the stage to build a digital twin that will help us test the impact of policy interventions.

More in the 🧵!

Picture of the WHAT-IF project consortium at the kick-off meeting in Amsterdam

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Rebecca Kittel @rebeccakittel.bsky.social · Feb 3

📢 Call for Papers!

Digital Communication and Computational Approaches to Understanding Social Movements in the Social Media Era

Special Issue w. Computational Communication Research: tinyurl.com/2p8wcbh2

co-edited with: @smtorres.bsky.social & @oenna2002.bsky.social

More details below 👇

Call for Papers: CCR Special Issue on Digital Communication in Social Movement | Computational Communication Research

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Wouter van Atteveldt @vanatteveldt.com · May 21

We're hiring! Does writing research software and promoting computational social science sounds like your dream job? We're looking for a postdoc / research engineer for the Societal Analytics lab: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/po.... Email me or find me at #ica for Qs!

https://workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/post-doctoral-researcher-research-engineer-at-the-fsw-societal-analytics-lab-amsterdam-1075238…

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Computational Communication Research @computationalcommunication.org · Oct 24

New Paper! @jana_bhard and @boomgaardenhg investigate the role of validation methods in topic model selection, showing how different approaches can influence the chosen model, impacting study results, and thus also theory development. Available here: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...

Topic Model Validation Methods and their Impact on Model Selection and Evaluation | Amsterdam Univer...

Topic Modeling is currently one of the most widely employed unsupervised text-as-data techniques in the field of communication science. While researchers increasingly recognize the importance of valid...

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · Oct 23

🚨New Publication in Computational Communication Research 🚨
CCR has published a paper titled "Topic Model Validation Methods and their Impact on Model Selection and Evaluation", written by @janabernhard.bsky.social, Martin Teuffenbach, and @hajoboo.bsky.social

New Publication in Computational Communication Research

Congratulations to Jana Bernhard, Martin Teuffenbach, and Hajo G. Boomgaarden on publishing a new paper in Computational Communication Research!

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