In this episode, Emese Domahidi (TU Ilmenau) and Mario Haim (LMU Munich) talk to David Lazer (Northeastern U in Boston, MA), distinguished professor of political science as well as computer science and one of the founding fathers of the broader field of computational social science. With a focus on mis- and disinformation, we learn from him why it is so difficult to measure human behavior both and why it has become both more challenging but also more adressable online. Of course, we touch...

In this episode, Emese Domahidi (Assistant Professor at TU Ilmenau) and Mario Haim (Professor at LMU Munich) discuss with Jacob T. Fisher (Assistant Professor at the U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) about the role of coding for communication scholars. Jacob just co-organized (along with Josephine Lukito, Frederic R. Hopp, and Felicia Loecherbach) the first ICA Hackathon and talks about his experience at the event in the podcast. From there, we tackle topics such as what programming and...

The ICA's annual conference 2022 will start in a couple of days. In this episode, Emese Domahidi (TU Ilmenau) and Mario Haim (LMU Munich) discuss with Annie Waldherr (University of Vienna), current vice chair of the ICA's Computational Methods division, how to network in CCS. We touch upon the value of networking and how to network especially in the emerging field of CCS, given your specific career level. Of course, we also talk about the various receptions, the ICA dance, and other...

Flipping things upside-down in this episode, Emese Domahidi (TU Ilmenau) and Mario Haim (LMU Munich) discuss with Claudia Wagner (RWTH Aachen and GESIS) about whether and how computer science really needs the social sciences. Claudia's background as a trained computer scientist as well as her current role as Professor of Applied Computational Social Sciences allowed us to really dive into opposing expectations, clichés, hurdles, and especially the benefits of interdisciplinary work at the...

In this episode Emese Domahidi (Assistant Professor at TU Ilmenau) and Mario Haim (Assistant Professor at the U of Leipzig) discuss with Juhi Kulshrestha (Assistant Professor at U Konstanz) what makes algorithms online a research object. We touch on topics like filter bubbles and echo chambers, biases, how to investigate algorithms, the role of platforms and companies, data sources and possible effects of algorithmic curation. Last but not least, we discuss how far this field of resesarch has...

Together with Tetsuro Kobayashi (Associate Professor at City U of Hong Kong), Emese Domahidi (Assistant Professor at TU Ilmenau) and Mario Haim (Assistant Professor at the U of Leipzig) discuss the dilemma with social-media tech giants like Facebook or Tencent which undoubtedly have but are hesitant to share adequate data with independent research. We also discuss how varying types of data have changed with the rise of computational communication science. And we talk about possible ways to...

Together with Felicia Löcherbach (PhD candidate at VU Amsterdam), Emese Domahidi (Assistant Professor at TU Ilmenau) and Mario Haim (Assistant Professor at the U of Leipzig) discuss what research software is and why to code your own research software. Felicia gives unique insights into the topic using the example of a research software she developed from scratch. We also touch on topics like rewards and challenges, ethics, data security, systematic testing vs. quick and easy solutions and how...

Emese Domahidi (Assistant Professor at TU Ilmenau) and Mario Haim (Assistant Professor at the U of Leipzig) interview Till Keyling (former Senior Data Scientist at ProSiebenSat.1 and now Team Lead Software Engineering Data Science at PAYBACK) on how to become a data scientist. After learning what data science is, we look at what communication scientists can bring to the table, what university is capable of equipping us with, and what it is that potential employers look for in future data...

Today, Emese Domahidi (Assistant Professor at TU Ilmenau) and Mario Haim (Assistant Professor at the U of Leipzig) discuss together with Valerie Hase (Research and Teaching Assistant at the U of Zurich) ways, approaches, guidelines, and routes to get started with computational communication science (CCS). We talk learning materials, compare intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, provide ideas and suggestions on where and how to find help and companions, and we tell our very own stories of how we...

In the second episode Emese Domahidi (Assistant Professor at TU Ilmenau) and Mario Haim (Assistant Professor at the U of Leipzig) discuss with Wouter van Atteveldt (Associate Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) the role of communication science in the field. Main topics are the nature and role of data for the social sciences and challenges in collaborations with computer scientists. We touch on topics like open science, reproducibility and replicability for computational communication...

In this first-ever episode, Emese Domahidi (Assistant Professor at TU Ilmenau) and Mario Haim (Assistant Professor at the U of Leipzig) discuss the relevance of a social-scientific perspective in the computer-scientifically driven field of artificial intelligence. We briefly dig into Kate Crawford's recent book (https://www.katecrawford.net/) as well as the European Union's "Guidelines for Trustworthy AI." And we compare rather distinct understandings of relevance when it comes to a...

What is it about Computational Communication Science? 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...