Arianna Pera

Arianna Pera is a PhD student in Computational Social Science at the IT University of Copenhagen, affiliated with the NERDS research group. She has completed a visiting research stay at the School of Information, University of Michigan (until December 2024) and is currently collaborating with Central European University in Vienna.

• Education: MSc in Data Science from the University of Milano-Bicocca, with a thesis on NLP applications to bias analysis in online discourse.

Her research explores social media communication in political and social contexts, focusing on collective action dynamics, discourse framing, and swing voter identification. Current projects include analyzing climate delay discourses in UK Parliament speeches and labor movement communication in the US.

Recent work includes a 2025 AAAI ICWSM paper on social media-based collective action extraction and a 2024 arXiv preprint on hidden swing voters in Italian elections. Her methodologies integrate NLP, social network analysis, and propaganda detection.

Labs/teams:

• NERDS research group at ITU
• Networks and Data Science Department at Central European University
• Collaborative work with Prof. Luca Maria Aiello (COCOONS project) and Ceren Budak (University of Michigan)