Online deliberation
How civic conversations scale on WhatsApp, Twitter/X, and local forums — and when they fail to produce shared understanding.
I study how online publics form, fragment, and deliberate — combining network analysis, NLP, and ethnographic fieldwork across Indonesian digital spaces.
Three interlocking lines of inquiry that shape my dissertation and collaborative projects.
How civic conversations scale on WhatsApp, Twitter/X, and local forums — and when they fail to produce shared understanding.
Mapping influence, brokerage, and silence in Indonesian issue networks using mixed computational and qualitative methods.
Building language resources for Indonesian low-resource settings while auditing bias in classification pipelines.
Peer-reviewed papers and workshop contributions. Full list available on ORCID and Google Scholar.
Appointments, awards, and service that contextualise the research.
Advisor: Prof. Rina Hartono. Dissertation on networked deliberation in Indonesian civic spaces.
Three-month residence with the Social Computing Lab; collaborated on multilingual stance detection.
Fully funded doctoral award covering tuition and fieldwork across three Indonesian cities.
Supported survey design and network visualisation for a multi-university election integrity project.
Invited lectures and conference presentations.
Paper talk on silence and brokerage in climate advocacy networks.
Public-facing talk on fieldwork ethics and group chat as archive.
Methods seminar for graduate students on bias audits and dataset documentation.
Open to peer review, guest lectures, and co-authored work on Southeast Asian digital publics. Please include a short note on fit.
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