February
11

Scientific Presentations

LabTalks­@DCD

Department of Digital and Computational Demography
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Rostock, Germany, February 11, 2025

1:30 PM: Tutorial with Kiran Garimella - Data donation on social media: tools and datasets

Abstract

Part 2: In this talk, I will build further on the data donation model and present various data donation tools my team has built and recently released. I will discuss tools from Facebook, YouTube, Telegram and Instagram which are built using different data donation strategies and can collect different types of social media data. I will discuss the strategies used in deploying each of these tools and the types of data we collected.

About

Kiran Garimella is an assistant professor in the school of communication and information at Rutgers university. Prior to joining Rutgers, Dr. Garimella was the Michael Hammer postdoc at the Institute for Data, Systems and Society at MIT, and a postdoc at EPFL, Switzerland. His research deals with using large-scale data to tackle societal issues such as misinformation, political polarization, or hate speech. His work on studying and mitigating polarization on social media won the best paper awards at top computer science conferences. Kiran received his Ph.D. in computer science at Aalto University, Finland, and Masters & Bachelors from IIIT Hyderabad, India. Prior to his Ph.D., he worked as a Research Engineer at Yahoo Research, Barcelona, and QCRI, Doha.

 

Online Seminar Talk, February, 11th from 1:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (Rostock time)

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock is one of the leading demographic research centers in the world. It's part of the Max Planck Society, the internationally renowned German research society.