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Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam

PhD Student/Research Associate

Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam

Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam is a research associate in the research programme “Social Cohesion in Digital Media Environments” and focuses on polarisation and social cohesion. As a PhD student at the Computational Communication Science Lab at the University of Vienna, she is researching the potentials and challenges of automated detection of discrimination and hate speech. Her research interests also include political phenomena in media discourses and methodological questions, especially in the field of automated content analysis and computational social science.

Curriculum vitae

  • Since 2024 – Research Associate at CAIS (Social Cohesion in Digital Media Environments)
  • 2021 – 2024 – University Assistant (prae-doc) at the Computational Communication Science Lab, University of Vienna
  • 2021 – 2024 – sowi.docs fellow/ scholarship holder of the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Science, University of Vienna
  • 2019 – 2022 – Research Assistant at the Computational Communication Science Lab, University of Vienna
  • 2019 – 2021 – Master’s programme Journalism and Communication Science (M.A.) at the University of Vienna
  • 2014 – 2018 – Bachelor’s degree programme in Media Management (B.A.) at the Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln

  • Boomgaarden, H. & Kathirgamalingam, A. (2020). 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.

  • Kathirgamalingam, A., Lind, F., & Boomgaarden, H. (2023). Automated Detection of Voice in News Texts. Computational Communication Research, 5(1), 85-108.

  • Kathirgamalingam, A., Lind, F., Bernhard, J., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2024, October 8). Agree to Disagree? Human and LLM coder bias for constructs of marginalization. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/agpyr

  • Lind, F., Song, H., Boomgaarden, H., Kathirgamalingam, A., 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. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/23510

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Kakavand, A., Kathirgamalingam, A., Stecker, M., Henriksen, F. M., Dalheimer, A., & Waldherr, A. (September, 2024). Multiple voices, one speaker? A computational approach to match far-right user identities across platforms. 10th European Communication Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

  • Lind, F., Boomgaarden, H., Kathirgamalingam, A., Song, H., Syed Ali, K., & Vliegenthart, R. (May, 2022). Comparative Communication Research 2003-2021: A Systematic Review of Communication Science Journals. International Communication Association, Conference in Paris.

  • Kathirgamalingam, A., & Hussein, S. (November, 2022). Racist Police Violence in Europe. Dekolonial 2022. University of Vienna.

  • Kathirgamalingam, A., Galyga, S., Eberl, J.M., & Boomgaarden, H. (July, 2022). Media Reporting, Media Trust and Migration Attitudes in Comparative Perspective. Council for European Studies, Conference in Lisbon.

  • Kathirgamalingam, A., Ivanov, A., Zivic, J., Markantoni, D., Prinetto, P., Velicu, A., & Papadakis, S. (2024). Panel Discussion: Lead Online Talk on digital literacy and countering online hate speech, Brussels.

  • Kathirgamalingam, A., Lind, F. & Boomgaarden, H. (June, 2024). Measuring Racism and Related Concepts using Computational Text-as-Data Approaches: A Systematic Literature Review. 74th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia.

  • Kathirgamalingam, A., Lind, F. & Boomgaarden, H. (May, 2023). Pushing the Limits? Tracing long-term dynamics of racist language and imagery in German newspapers. 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.

  • Kathirgamalingam, A., Lind, F., & Boomgaarden, H. (May, 2022). Automated Voice Detection – Evaluation and Validation of State-of-the-Art Tools. International Communication Association, Conference in Paris.

  • Kathirgamalingam, A., Lind, F., & Boomgaarden, H. (May, 2023). Exploring Long-Term Dynamics of Racism in German Far-Right News Media. Researching The Far-Right: Methodological Approaches: Approaches, Challenges and Insecurities. Central European University, Vienna.

  • Kathirgamalingam, A., Lind, F., & Boomgaarden, H. (September, 2024). Decoding racism in news media: Exploring coder bias in human and LLM-based classification. 10th European Communication Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam

PhD Student/Research Associate

E-Mail: ahrabhi.kathirgamalingam@cais-research.de

Bereich: Research Data and Methods, Societal Cohesion in Digital Media Environments
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