Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

Kathirgamalingam, A., Kulichkina, A., Bernhard-Harrer, J. & Hase, V. (forthcoming). Reflecting on Social Bias: Challenges and Opportunities for Computational Social Science. Soziale Welt.

Čirjak, M., Kathirgamalingam, A., Betakova, D., Syed-Ali, P., & Boomgaarden, H. (forthcoming). A Matter of Risk Perception? The Dynamics of News Media Use during a Crisis. Mass Communication and Society.

Bleier, A., Kiesel, J., Viehmann, C., Münch, F. V., Chan, C.-H., Chang, P.-C., Costa da Silva, R. G., Kathirgamalingam, A., Khan, M. T., Linzbach, S., Momeni, F., Yu, R., Dietze, S., & Wagner, C. (forthcoming). Improving reproducibility in computational social science with the Methods Hub. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2026).

Kiesel, J., Viehmann, C., Münch, F. V., Bleier, A., Chan, C.-H., Chang, P.-C., Costa da Silva, R. G., Kathirgamalingam, A., Khan, M. T., Linzbach, S., Momeni, F., Yu, R., Wagner, C., & Dietze, S. (2026). The Methods Hub: A community portal for finding and re-using methods. In Companion publication of the 2026 18th ACM Web Science Conference (pp. 15–19). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3795513.3807427

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., 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., & Boomgaarden, H. (2023). Automated Detection of Voice in News Texts. Computational Communication Research, 5(1), 85-108. https://doi.org/10.5117/CCR2023.1.004.KATH


Book chapters, reports, non-peer-reviewed publications

Schmitt, J. B., Kathirgamalingam, A. & Akyürek, S. Y. (2026). Hassrede im digitalen Zeitalter: Wie Soziale Medien und Künstliche Intelligenz Macht und Diskriminierung reproduzieren. In Maahs, I.-M., Triulzi, M. & Winter, C.. (Hrsg.). Sprache – Macht – Diversität. Zur (Re-)Produktion von Differenz und Zugehörigkeit durch Sprache (51-65). Waxmann.

Dos Santos Choucair, T., Kathirgamalingam, A., Lind, F., Bernhard, J., Boomgaarden, H., Oliveira, B., Maia, R., Vodden, L., Esau, K., Bruns, A., Svegaard, S., Farfan, K., Meyer, H., Brüggemann, M., Giglietto, F., Rossi, L., Righetti, N., & Marino, G. (2024). Transformative Tools, Emerging Challenges: Empirical And Practical Experiences With Large Language Models For Text Classification And Annotation In Communication Studies. Aoir Selected Papers Of Internet Research. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2024i0.14102

Biringer, K., Haidn, K., Ivancic, D., Kathirgamalingam, A., Lamp, F., & Uhl, M. (2023). under.docs: Future in Progress. UR: das Journal. Studentische Forschung an der Universität Wien. https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/urj/issue/view/620

Scheper, J. & Kathirgamalingam, A. (2022). Fünf Thesen zur Integration von Computational Communication Science in die Lehre. aviso – Informationsdienst der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft. Link

Boomgaarden, H. & Kathirgamalingam, A. Fake News in Social and Natural Sciences: Survey in Austria. In: EPRS European Parliamentary Research Service (Ed.): Disinformation and Science. A Survey of the Gullibility of Students with regard to False Scientific News (pp. 5-14).

Eberl, J.M., Kathirgamalingam, A. & Boomgaarden, H. (2020). Austria: On the Road to Peak TV Debate? In: J. Juarez-Gamiz et al. (Ed.): Routledge International Handbook on Electoral Debates, New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429331824


Preprints

Kathirgamalingam, A., Kulichkina, A., Bernhard-Harrer, J., & Hase, V. (2025). Reflecting on social bias: Challenges and opportunities for computational social science (Preprint). https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/xr45y_v2

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_v2


Blog posts

Kathirgamalingam, A. & Kulichkina, A. (2024). Dismantling the ivory tower: Our perspectives from within. The ViDSS Blog. Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences.