Hi. I am a research associate at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (Germany) in the research groups ‘Social Cohesion in Digital Media Environments’ and ‘Research Data and Methods’. As a PhD student at the ‘Computational Communication Science Lab’ at the University of Vienna, I am investigating the chances and challenges of automating racism detection in textual data. My research interests include political phenomena such as polarization and migration in mediated discourses, as well as methodological questions relating to social bias and Computational Social Science.

coming up.

June 2025 - Research Presentation / 75th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA) in Denver, Colorado

August 2025 - Research Presentation / European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) in Thessaloniki, Greece

recent.

15. & 16.05.2025 - Poster Presentation / Tracing Racism in Textual Data: A CSS Perspective / CSS & Inequality at University of Mannheim, Germany

13.05.2025 - Workshop / From Awareness to Action: Addressing Discrimination and Power in Academia / Qualification Programme Digitalisation Research at Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), Germany (hybrid)

26.04.2025 – Roundtable Discussion / Marginalized Voices and Perspectives in Computational Methods / 7th Annual Conference of COMPTEXT at University of Vienna, Austria

latest publications.

Lind, F., Song, H., Boomgaarden, H., Kathirgamalingam, A., Song, H., Syed Ali, K., & Vliegenthart, R. (2025). Research Practices in Comparative Communication Research: Visibility, Topical and Geographical Disparities, and their Longitudinal Patterns. International Journal of Communication, 19(26), 1103-1128. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/23510

Kathirgamalingam, A., Lind, F., Bernhard-Harrer, J., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2024). Agree to Disagree? Human and LLM coder bias for constructs of marginalization. [Preprint] https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/agpyr