About me
I am a Lecturer (≈ tenure-track assistant professor) in Communications and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Exeter. I obtained my PhD in Information, Communication, and the Social Sciences from the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and have also worked as a postdoctoral LSE Fellow in Computational Social Science at the Department of Methodology, London School of Economics and Political Science.
I’m interested in Wikipedia, collaborative communities, and news across online platforms. I look to understand the social, editorial, and algorithmic processes that shape collective attention and drive interest towards news and current events. In my research I employ and develop techniques from network science, text analysis, time series analysis, and machine learning.
At Exeter, I co-direct the Critical AI Centre (CrAIC) and am a member of the management group for the Institute for Data Science and Artifical Intelligence (IDSAI). I am a Research Affiliate at the Search Prompt Integrity & Learning Lab (SPILL) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science Department of Methodology.
If you are interested in me and my work please do get in touch through email or social media.
Supervision
I am accepting applications for primary supervision and co-supervision of PhD students. If you are interested in working with me, as a first step please consult the information here, and email me an abstract describing your research interests and proposed work.
CV
A full CV is available here. Please note this may not be fully up-to-date. Please contact me if you would like a current version.
Recent posts
New WikiReddit Dataset Preprint
WikiReddit: Tracing Information and Attention Flows Between Online Platforms w/ Anna Beers, Viviane Ito, Agustin Orozco, and Francesca Tripodi
Wikimedia Research Showcase
Wikimedia Research Showcase: Collective Attention Across Wikipedia and the Web
New Preprint on the News Comment Gap
The News Comment Gap and Algorithmic Agenda Setting in Online Forums w/ Flora Böwing
New job
Delighted to share that I will be starting as Lecturer (≈ TT Asst Prof) in Communications and Artificial Intelligence at University of Exeter this September....