We welcome @theamoldovan.bsky.social as a new PhD student at the lab! Theodora will work on fairness in social network analysis.

Emotional tone mirrors different stages of participation in collective action: calls-to-action evoke caring, intention expresses optimism, and execution reflects joy, revealing how activism in podcasts is framed positively.

Podcasts as a Medium for Participation in Collective Action: A Case Study of Black Lives Matter We study how participation in collective action is articulated in podcast discussions, using the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement as a case study. While research on collective action discourse has pr...

Our new study provides the first large-scale look at how collective action is expressed in spoken digital discourse, using #BlackLivesMatter as a case study.

Many thanks to @ariannapera.bsky.social @dvladek.bsky.social @lajello.bsky.social for the collab

Check it out: arxiv.org/abs/2509.13197

Congratulations to @theamoldovan.bsky.social, who defended her Master's thesis: "Exploring Collective Action in Black Lives Matter Podcast Conversations".