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. Further, I am an external lecturer at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. 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.

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

October 2025 - Interdisciplinary Conference: Creating Spaces for Digital Futures / Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) / Bochum, Germany

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.

Kathirgamalingam, A., Lind, F., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2025). Measuring racism and related concepts using computational text-as-data approaches: a systematic literature review. Annals of International Communication Association, wlaf013, https://doi.org/10.1093/anncom/wlaf013

Lind, F., Song, H., Boomgaarden, H. G., 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