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Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam

Doktorandin/Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam

Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Forschungsprogramm „Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt in digitalen Medienumgebungen“ und beschäftigt sich mit Polarisierung und sozialem Zusammenhalt. Als Doktorandin am Computational Communication Science Lab der Universität Wien forscht sie zu den Potenzialen und Herausforderungen der automatisierten Erkennung von Diskriminierung und Hassrede. Ihre Forschungsinteressen umfassen zudem politische Phänomene in medialen Diskursen sowie methodologische Fragen, insbesondere im Bereich der automatisierten Inhaltsanalyse und Computational Social Science.

Lebenslauf

  • Seit 2024 – Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am CAIS (Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt in digitalen Medienumgebungen)
  • 2021 – 2024 – Universitätsassistentin (prae-doc) am Computational Communication Science Lab, Universität Wien
  • 2021 – 2024 – sowi.docs fellow/ Stipendiatin der Vienna Doctoral School of Social Science, Universität Wien
  • 2019 – 2022 – Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft am Computational Communication Science Lab, Universität Wien
  • 2019 – 2021 – Masterstudium Journalismus und Kommunikationswissenschaft (M.A.) an der Universität Wien
  • 2014 – 2018 – Bachelorstudium Medienmanagement (B.A.) an der Rheinischen Fachhochschule Köln

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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., 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

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

  • Planitzer, A. M., Betakova, D., & Kathirgamalingam, A. (September, 2024). Intersecting struggles: Building an early career network for navigating precarity in academic spaces. 10th European Communication Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

  • 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.

  • Čirjak, M., Kathirgamalingam, A., Betakova, D., Syed Ali, P., & Boomgaarden, H. (September, 2024). A matter of risk perception? The dynamics of news media use during crises. 10th European Communication Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

  • 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., Bernhard, J. & Boomgaarden, H. (May, 2024). Exploring Coder Bias: An Investigation of Human and LLM-based Classification of Racism in German News Media. 6th Annual COMPTEXT Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • 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., 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.

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Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam

Doktorandin/Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

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

Bereich: Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt in digitalen Medienumgebungen, Research Data and Methods
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