Petter Törnberg is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Language, Logic and Computation at the University of Amsterdam, Associate Professor in Complex Systems at Chalmers University of Technology, NWO VENI laurate, and senior researcher at the University of Neuchâtel. His research focuses on the intersection of AI, social media, and politics, using digital data and computational methods for critical research that contributes to social scientific theory.
He has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers and chapters, in journals such as PNAS, New Media & Society, and Big Data & Society.
I am engaged in several current research projects on the relationship between social media and affective polarization, AI, the ongoing shifts in platformisation, and urban mediatisation.