projects

🙋‍♂️ As one of the early global pioneers of Twitter research (ca. 2009), my PhD dissertation, “Inferring Social Behavior and Interaction on Twitter by Combining Metadata about Users & Messages”, resulted in major contributions in social media metadata analysis and inference generation. I am recognised as a subject-matter expert in social media analysis, as well as the research methods and computational techniques used.

My data analysis and research acumen have contributed to international research collaborations in a wide range of domains - from marketing, to mental health, to energy policy, to political science. I am a frequent media commentator and contributor to policy-making endeavours.

IS-AI-data

💬 Social Implications of Information Systems

Frequent commentator to the media on impact of digital technologies - from a combined usability/philosophical/information systems perspective.

🩺 Data-driven Public Health

I am part of diverse research groups with subject matter experts contributing to interdisciplinary public health research.

⌗ Social Network Analysis Approaches

My pioneering work on Twitter analysis led to the subsequent, ongoing, research interest in social media and social networks in general.

philosophy

🚦 Digital Ethics and Algorithms

I am interested in the intersection between information systems, computing and philosophy - in particular how basic building blocks (of algorithms and programming languages) - have an impact on the human usage of systems, and their wider societal impact (for better or for worse).

🤝 Social Epistemology, Digital Trust, and Social Psychology

My contribution provides an empirical understanding of today's social media landscape through the lens of social epistemology.

😑 (Digital) Existentialism & Phenomenology

From Sartre to ﹟nofilter... what does existentialist philosophy teach us both offline and online?