PING
Politics and Internet Working Group
European University Institute · Florence · 2026–27
European University Institute · Florence · 2026–27
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PING is a new EUI working group on politics and the internet. Computational social science at the core, other disciplines and methods welcome. A place to present ongoing work and get constructive feedback. Meets on Wednesdays, 14:30–15:45 in 2026 and 16:30–17:45 in 2027, followed by an apéro. All EUI members (faculty, researchers, fellows, visiting fellows) welcome.
| Date | Room | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 · 14:30–15:45 | |||
| Wed 14 Oct Exceptionally starts at 17:00 | Seminar Room 3, Badia Fiesolana | Amélie Ruiz-Dormet (EUI) | Gender Trouble in Online Childfree Communities. A Computational Grounded Analysis of Childfree Narratives on Reddit (2020–2024) |
| Wed 28 Oct | Sala Belvedere, Villa Schifanoia | Filippo Andrei (UniVie) | Knowing More, Seeing Risk Differently: Algorithmic Literacy and Online Risk Perception |
| Emelie Karlsson (Uppsala) | Media Narratives and the Second-Order Effects of Digital Election Interference | ||
| Wed 4 Nov | Sala Belvedere, Villa Schifanoia | Mateo Vásquez-Cortés (UC San Diego) | Elevating Positive Narratives: WhatsApp Campaign Effects on Migrant-Host Relations in Colombia |
| Wed 11 Nov | Seminar Room 3, Badia Fiesolana | Prashant Garg (Bocconi) | |
| Wed 25 Nov | SPS Meeting Room, Villa Sanfelice | Andreas Küpfer (TU Darmstadt) | |
| Wed 9 Dec | Seminar Room 1, Badia Fiesolana | Jihye Park (Geneva) | Expand and Exempt: Compensation and the Politics of US Chip Export Controls |
| 2027 · 16:30–17:45 | |||
| Wed 13 Jan | Seminar Room 3, Badia Fiesolana | Eszter Hargittai (University of Zurich) | |
| Wed 27 Jan | Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana | TBA | |
| Wed 10 Feb | Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana | TBA | |
| Wed 24 Feb | Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana | TBA | |
| Wed 10 Mar | Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana | TBA | |
| Wed 24 Mar | Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana | TBA | |
| Wed 7 Apr | Sala del Capitolo, Badia Fiesolana | TBA | |
| Wed 21 Apr | Sala del Capitolo, Badia Fiesolana | TBA | |
| Wed 5 May | Sala del Capitolo, Badia Fiesolana | TBA | |
| Wed 19 May | Seminar Room 3, Badia Fiesolana | TBA | |
| Wed 2 Jun | Sala del Capitolo, Badia Fiesolana | TBA | |
Getting there: EUI campus map and buildings. The EUI runs a shuttle bus between buildings.
Each session runs 1h15. Two options:
Digital technologies and politics, broadly defined:
Any method: computational text and network analysis, field and survey experiments, causal inference with observational and digital trace data, qualitative and ethnographic work on online communities, theory.
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Questions: kevin.munger@eui.eu
Organized by Kevin Munger and Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz.
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Last updated 23 October 2026.