Arianna Pera defends her PhD: The Language of Collective Action in the Social Web

 

Big congratulations to Arianna for successfully defending her PhD thesis on the role of language in fostering grassroots collective action. The Committee was composed by Luca Rossi, Fabiana Zollo, and Sune Lehmann. Her very proud supervisor is Luca Aiello.

Collage with three pictures 1) Arianna presenting her work, 2) Arianna posing with members of the Committee (Luca Rossi, Sune Lehmann) and with her advisor (Luca Aiello) 3) Arianna and many NERDS nighttime celegration

During her three years with NERDS, Arianna has published 7 paper in the areas of mobilization framing, computational narratives, and applied NLP. She has become a very active member of the international Computational Social Science community, which will benefit from her work for many years to come.

On March 1st she will start a research position at SODAS with Clara Vandeweerdt.

In bocca al lupo, Arianna!