Deadline for receipt of applications: 06 December 2020, 14:00h Europe/Madrid Time
Online Social Networks (OSN) have shaped the way we interact nowadays, but they also expose us to different forms of aggressive.
An example is the memetic content to encourage extremist and violent discourse [1].
The purpose of this PhD is to devise new methods aiming at protecting users from aggressions in OSN. The scope of the project will focus on studying the problem of radicalization, the promotion of violence and the use of online aggression from a broad perspective.
[1] On the origins of memes by means of fringe web communities. In Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference 2018 (pp. 188-202).