Laura Vodden
Biographic Data
| ID | 316625 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Vodden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Vodden |
| SIGNATURE | VODDEN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-6792-8580 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Humans and Machines in the Loop: Rethinking LLMS for Conflict and Disagreement in Content Analysis of Social Complex Phenomena
The study of polarization, conflict, and ideological divergence has long challenged scholars across media, communication, and political science. Understanding these phenomena requires engaging with fundamental questions about how opinions are formed, reinforced, and contested in public discourse, and how language and discourses can have so many different meanings and interpretations. Traditional content analysis methods often try to capture this …
Ruptures in Climate Discourse: Digital Publics, Polarisation, and Environmental Conflict in Australia and Brazil
Australia and Brazil are on the frontlines of climate crises. Both have experienced significant warming, including intense heatwaves. Both have experienced changes in rainfall patterns, with increases in some regions and decreases in others, affecting biodiversity, agriculture, and infrastructure. Floods and largely destructive bushfires have been major events both countries dealt with in the last decade. The frequency and intensity of such extre…
Transformative Tools, Emerging Challenges: Empirical and Practical Experiences With Large Language Models for Text Classification and Annotation in Communication Studies
Advancements in Large Language Models have been showing important research opportunities within the field of communication studies. It offers the capacity to conduct large-scale content classification and annotation with low computational expertise and reduced manual coding efforts, potentially allowing more possibilities for researchers in social sciences to explore understudied topics (Bail, 2023; Chang et al., 2024). Because of its functioning…
Controversies, Problematic Information, and Polarisation: Case Studies Across Six Countries
Political trends around the world have drawn further scholarly attention to the study of polarisation, especially also as it is expressed and potentially deepened by public communication on digital and social media platforms. The very concept of polarisation itself, however, remains ill-defined especially in communication research, where it is often used as a mere buzzword without sufficient definition – even in spite of a wide range of conceptua…
Analysing News Polarisation: From Production to Engagement and Beyond
Political polarisation – at the level of individual issues or broader ideologies, and expressed through differences of opinion on policies, divergent affective attachments, contrary interpretations of available information, or distinct patterns of interaction with other partisans – is necessarily always closely related to the information that individuals and groups engage with as they form and reinforce their own opinions about a given issue or t…
Amplifying the News: An Analysis of the Factors Driving Republication and Facebook Engagement with News
The discursive function of Meta’s Newsroom: How Meta frames the problem of problematic online content
This article examines the social technology company Meta’s public communication on problematic content, via their official ‘Meta Newsroom’, within the context of growing regulatory scrutiny. For nearly a decade, the Meta Newsroom has been a major outlet for Meta company announcements, and since 2016, the Newsroom has increasingly become a key source for company responses to concerns regarding mis/disinformation and other kinds of problematic cont…
Division, not reconciliation: Mapping news media polarisation during Australia's indigenous voice to parliament referendum
Concerns about rising social and political polarisation are widespread, with blame often attributed to partisan or biased news coverage despite limited empirical evidence. Previous studies have focussed on audiences, either their political leanings or polarised responses to news, offering limited insight into patterns of viewpoint diversity within news content. This study introduces an approach to measuring news media polarisation beyond the left…
Untangling the Furball: A Practice Mapping Approach to the Analysis of Multimodal Interactions in Social Networks
This article introduces the analytical approach of practice mapping , using vector embeddings of network actions and interactions to map commonalities and disjunctures in the practices of social media users, as a framework for methodological advancement beyond the limitations of conventional network analysis and visualization. In particular, the methodological framework we outline here has the potential to incorporate multiple distinct modes of i…
Topic Diversity in Social Media Campaigning: A Study of the 2022 Australian Federal Election
This study explores the diversity of topics in political campaign communication on social media during the 2022 Australian federal election. While political campaigns on social media are often associated with both persuasive and mobilising appeals, this research focuses on understanding the differences in persuasive content by comparing organic (non-targeted) and paid (targeted) political communication. Analysing the Australian context, which fol…
Untangling the Furball: A Practice Mapping Approach to the Analysis of Multimodal Interactions in Social Networks
This article introduces the analytical approach of practice mapping , using vector embeddings of network actions and interactions to map commonalities and disjunctures in the practices of social media users, as a framework for methodological advancement beyond the limitations of conventional network analysis and visualization. In particular, the methodological framework we outline here has the potential to incorporate multiple distinct modes of i…
Topic Diversity in Social Media Campaigning: A Study of the 2022 Australian Federal Election
This study explores the diversity of topics in political campaign communication on social media during the 2022 Australian federal election. While political campaigns on social media are often associated with both persuasive and mobilising appeals, this research focuses on understanding the differences in persuasive content by comparing organic (non-targeted) and paid (targeted) political communication. Analysing the Australian context, which fol…
Topic Diversity in Social Media Campaigning: A Study of the 2022 Australian Federal Election
This study explores the diversity of topics in political campaign communication on social media during the 2022 Australian federal election. While political campaigns on social media are often associated with both persuasive and mobilising appeals, this research focuses on understanding the differences in persuasive content by comparing organic (non-targeted) and paid (targeted) political communication. Analysing the Australian context, which fol…
Transformative Tools, Emerging Challenges: Empirical and Practical Experiences With Large Language Models for Text Classification and Annotation in Communication Studies
Advancements in Large Language Models have been showing important research opportunities within the field of communication studies. It offers the capacity to conduct large-scale content classification and annotation with low computational expertise and reduced manual coding efforts, potentially allowing more possibilities for researchers in social sciences to explore understudied topics (Bail, 2023; Chang et al., 2024). Because of its functioning…
Controversies, Problematic Information, and Polarisation: Case Studies Across Six Countries
Political trends around the world have drawn further scholarly attention to the study of polarisation, especially also as it is expressed and potentially deepened by public communication on digital and social media platforms. The very concept of polarisation itself, however, remains ill-defined especially in communication research, where it is often used as a mere buzzword without sufficient definition – even in spite of a wide range of conceptua…
Analysing News Polarisation: From Production to Engagement and Beyond
Political polarisation – at the level of individual issues or broader ideologies, and expressed through differences of opinion on policies, divergent affective attachments, contrary interpretations of available information, or distinct patterns of interaction with other partisans – is necessarily always closely related to the information that individuals and groups engage with as they form and reinforce their own opinions about a given issue or t…
Amplifying the News: An Analysis of the Factors Driving Republication and Facebook Engagement with News
The discursive function of Meta’s Newsroom: How Meta frames the problem of problematic online content
This article examines the social technology company Meta’s public communication on problematic content, via their official ‘Meta Newsroom’, within the context of growing regulatory scrutiny. For nearly a decade, the Meta Newsroom has been a major outlet for Meta company announcements, and since 2016, the Newsroom has increasingly become a key source for company responses to concerns regarding mis/disinformation and other kinds of problematic cont…
Division, not reconciliation: Mapping news media polarisation during Australia's indigenous voice to parliament referendum
Concerns about rising social and political polarisation are widespread, with blame often attributed to partisan or biased news coverage despite limited empirical evidence. Previous studies have focussed on audiences, either their political leanings or polarised responses to news, offering limited insight into patterns of viewpoint diversity within news content. This study introduces an approach to measuring news media polarisation beyond the left…
Untangling the Furball: A Practice Mapping Approach to the Analysis of Multimodal Interactions in Social Networks
This article introduces the analytical approach of practice mapping , using vector embeddings of network actions and interactions to map commonalities and disjunctures in the practices of social media users, as a framework for methodological advancement beyond the limitations of conventional network analysis and visualization. In particular, the methodological framework we outline here has the potential to incorporate multiple distinct modes of i…
Humans and Machines in the Loop: Rethinking LLMS for Conflict and Disagreement in Content Analysis of Social Complex Phenomena
The study of polarization, conflict, and ideological divergence has long challenged scholars across media, communication, and political science. Understanding these phenomena requires engaging with fundamental questions about how opinions are formed, reinforced, and contested in public discourse, and how language and discourses can have so many different meanings and interpretations. Traditional content analysis methods often try to capture this …
Ruptures in Climate Discourse: Digital Publics, Polarisation, and Environmental Conflict in Australia and Brazil
Australia and Brazil are on the frontlines of climate crises. Both have experienced significant warming, including intense heatwaves. Both have experienced changes in rainfall patterns, with increases in some regions and decreases in others, affecting biodiversity, agriculture, and infrastructure. Floods and largely destructive bushfires have been major events both countries dealt with in the last decade. The frequency and intensity of such extre…
Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Social Media and Politics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social media (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Data science (2 works)