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Apeksha Shetty

@apeksha.bsky.social
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She/her | PhD Candidate at Complexity Science Hub & University of Vienna's @compcommlab.bsky.social | Currently studying misinformation & social identity on social media | Mundus Journalism alumna

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Apeksha Shetty @apeksha.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
India's student protests against corruption is being met with police brutality, internet shutdowns and misinformation from official sources. We're seeing official and government-allied sources using AI-generated and decontextualized images to vilify the protesters and the movement shorturl.at/BGCva
“Red protest poster reading ‘SPOT THE “ANTI NATIONAL”.’ A schoolgirl holding a sign saying ‘EDUCATION NOT OPPRESSION’ stands at the centre, surrounded by police and security personnel wielding batons, shields, firearms, smoke canisters and a water hose.” Poster by 
Atharva MoteDark navy protest poster with large red text reading ‘DANDE MATARAM.’ This is a play on "Vande Mataram"or "I praise Mother", with "Mother" serving as a poetic personification of India. 

A black-and-white figure in a camouflage uniform bends forward with a white baton in their hand. Small red text gives a dictionary-style definition of ‘police.’

Poster by dhar.mystic
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
the leader of the opposition represents over 50% of the country that did not vote for the government. this is how the government of india responded to him peacefully protesting today.
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
thousands of indian students marched on parliament today. the incredibly democratic indian government responded by tear gassing them and shutting off the internet in the capital. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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CJP's parliament march from Jantar Mantar: Thousands of 'cockroach' protesters take to Delhi streets
Some protesters demanding education reforms said they were injured in clashes with police who banned the march.
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aytalina @aytalina.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
📢 New publication! “Connective action and digital repression during China’s COVID-19 protests: a computational analysis of multilingual coordinated activity on Twitter" w/ brilliant Paul Balluff, @nicolarighetti.bsky.social, @anniewald.bsky.social out in EPJ Data Sci. Read #openaccess👇 rdcu.be/feZzK
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Connective action and digital repression during China’s COVID-19 protests: a computational analysis of multilingual coordinated activity on Twitter - EPJ Data Science
In authoritarian contexts, social media serve as critical platforms for coordinating both protest and repression. This study centers on the unprecedented COVID-19 protests in the People’s Republic of ...
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aytalina @aytalina.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
📢 New publication! My dissertation paper "Online Protest and Repression in Authoritarian Settings" co-authored with 🌟 @anniewald.bsky.social and Nanda Wijermans 🌟 is now out in @jasssjournal.bsky.social Read the full #openaccess article: www.jasss.org/29/2/4.html #ABM #CSS #dreamcollab
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Online Protest and Repression in Authoritarian Settings
by Aytalina Kulichkina, Annie Waldherr and Nanda Wijermans
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Apeksha Shetty @apeksha.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Check out @julaluehring.bsky.social 's novel study that uses causal inference to untangle if misinformation on social media truly leads to more engagement and more emotional discussions than reliable news. 👇
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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 13/10/2025
Join us as postdoc at the Inequality Discourse Observatory at the University of Konstanz: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/7... We will do epic research between Linguistics and Computational Social Science at the Cluster of Politics of Inequality. Feel free to DM if you have any questions.
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One postdoctoral Research Position
Deadline: November 15th, 2025
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Mark Boukes @markboukes.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
We have a vacancy for "Postdoctoral Researcher on the Topics of Journalism and Infotainment" with affinity for quantitative methods. Work includes projects related to media trust, pluralism, media effects and/or political satire. Link: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... Please help me share it 🙏
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Vacancy — Postdoctoral Researcher on the Topics of Journalism and Infotainment
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher on themes related to journalism with an affinity for quantitative methods. Are you interested in topics, such as media trust, pluralism, media effects and/...
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The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
After 3 packed days of research, workshops, and networking, #COMPTEXT2025 has officially wrapped up! In 48+ panels, 220+ presentations, and a full day of tutorials we received a great review of the state-of-the-art in our field. Thanks everyone and see you next year!
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Apeksha Shetty @apeksha.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Learning about efficient LLM training at @comptext.bsky.social with @cklamm.bsky.social #COMPTEXT2025 🤓
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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
⏰ Less than 2 days left! ⏰ Registration for #COMPTEXT2025 closes April 10 at 23:59 CEST! Join us in Vienna (April 24–26) for cutting-edge research on text-, image-, and video-as-data, hands-on workshops, and a brilliant community. Don't miss your chance—this is the final call! 🚂🧳 👉 bit.ly/4hJ7thP
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Complexity Science Hub @csh.ac.at · 12/03/2025
A CSH study challenges the widely held belief that #emotions make us more susceptible to #misinformation. The study, led by @hannahmetzler.bsky.social, reveals that emotions shape our perceptions, but don't impair our ability to distinguish between real and #falsenews. 👉 shorturl.at/FzHs1
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Complexity Science Hub * News * Do Emotions Make Us More Susceptible To Misinformation? Not Per Se, According To A New Study
A new study out of the Complexity Science Hub challenges the belief that emotions make us more susceptible to misinformation, revealing that pre-existing
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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
First ever publication alert! Do you credit all the software you use in your research?👀 In a new article in Computational Communication Research, we investigate when software gets mentioned in research articles and what makes a tool more likely to be cited. Read it here: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...
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Tools of the Trade – When Are Software Tools Mentioned in Computational Text Analysis Research? | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
The use of computational methods for text analysis has been rapidly gaining a foothold in computational social science. Yet, little is known about the reporting practices of the software tools utilise...
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Apeksha Shetty @apeksha.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The timing of an emotion (before vs after news exposure) matters to understand if emotions influence misinformation belief. Further, it's not enough to say that people react emotionally to misinformation: People react with anger both when they believe and disbelieve false news items. More details 👇
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Apeksha Shetty @apeksha.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Cool work by @julaluehring.bsky.social on NewsGuard as a resource for misinformation research! The paper also touches on NewsGuard's usefulness for source-based research on misinformation in countries other than the US. 👇
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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
⏳ Last day to submit your abstract for #COMPTEXT2025! Deadline: January 15, 2025, 11:59:59pm CET 🚀 Details: shorturl.at/AmocX
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7th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2025 – The Comptext Project
While these round tables will focus on specific themes, paper, panel, and data presentation submissions can, but are not required to, adhere to these topics.
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Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Time for the annual final sprint 📈 COMPTEXT2025 deadline is approaching (January 15, midnight). www.comptextconference.org/7th-annual-c...
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7th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2025 – The Comptext Project
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Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
6 days to submit your abstract for #COMPTEXT2025 🙌 Setting expectations: - 👾conversations about the latest computational methods across the social sciences and beyond -🎡☕️💚🦜🏃🏽‍♀️ (Social Programme preview)
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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
🚨 #COMPTEXT2025 Workshops – Sneak Peek! 🚨 🧰 Data donations and digital trace data
📖 Narratives in large datasets
🖼️ Visual data analysis 
🛠️ Creative text analysis toolkits 🧐 Bayesian text analysis …and more! Don’t miss your chance—submit your abstracts (250 words) by January 15 👉 shorturl.at/AmocX
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7th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2025 – The Comptext Project
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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
🎉 Happy New Year! Start 2025 strong—submit your work to #COMPTEXT2025, international conference on quantitative and computational analysis of text, image, and video as data 🚀 We can’t wait to welcome you to Vienna! ⏳Submission deadline: January 15 More here: shorturl.at/AmocX #css #commsky #polisky
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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
⏳ Less than a month left to submit your paper, panel, or data proposals for #COMPTEXT2025 Don’t miss out! Join us in Vienna on April 24-26, 2025, to discuss computational social science 🤩 
Deadline: Jan 15, 2025. Details: shorturl.at/AmocX
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7th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2025 – The Comptext Project
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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social · 20/11/2024
I would interpret this as a result of "quantity before quality" design of social media (and ultimately reflects the business model), where everything, the velocity, the scrolling, the thumbnails, the share button, encourages this (+ motives of signalling identity rather than sharing information).
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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Rise and shine, scholars! ☀️ The #COMPTEXT2025 Call for Papers, Panels, and Data Presentations is open! 📣 Submit by January 15 and join us in Vienna @univie.ac.at this April. We can’t wait to see what you’ll bring! shorturl.at/AmocX #css #commsky #polisky
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Dominika Betakova @dbetakova.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
🚨New publication alert on news avoidance (open-access) 🚫📰 With @hajoboo.bsky.social, @solecheler.bsky.social and Svenja Schäfer, we looked at which perceptions of media and politics predict intentional news avoidance or low news consumption (or both!). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Apeksha Shetty @apeksha.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
I had a fantastic time at MISDOOM, learning about what's going on in the field of mis- and disinformation. I also presented our team's work (@julaluehring.bsky.social @hannahmetzler.bsky.social) on emotions and misinformation.
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Azade Kakavand (she/her) @azadekakavand.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
🎉 Exciting News! My first #dissertation paper has just been published open access in Annals of the ICA! 📚🌐 🔍 In this comprehensive study, I explore the nuances of far-right social media communication through the unique perspective of technology affordances.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Arlie Hochschild introduced this idea of “deep stories”. Deep stories are the stories we (groups of humans) tell ourselves about who we are, what our values are. They reflect our hopes, fears and anxieties. Importantly, deep stories don’t have to be true — they just have to *feel* true.
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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
👋 Hello World! We're here now too & will soon close-down our #TwitterAccount for good. Help us find our mutuals on #BlueSky. 🔍 #CommSky #PolSky #CSS
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Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Proud of the work this great team did to understand whether viewing an online video of someone sharing their personal experiences with antisemitism might shift the attitudes and online browsing behavior of the viewers. Takeaway: we found reduced time spent on antisemitic websites.
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