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Specializations

  • Polarization and Social Cognition
  • Misinformation in Social Media
  • Computational Social Science

Research Areas

Biography

Alexandros Efstratiou is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Washington Information School and Center for an Informed Public (CIP). His work focuses on how polarization and naturally arising social groups influence the flow and acceptability of information in online social networks.

Efstratiou has an interdisciplinary background in Psychology and Computer Science. His research methods draw from various fields like social psychology, behavioral science, and computational social science.

Awards

  • Kurt Lewin Prize - Durham University, 2020
  • British Psychological Society Award - British Psychological Society, 2019
  • UEA School of Psychology Award - University of East Anglia, 2019

Publications and Contributions

  • Conference Paper
    (2024)
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW ’24), 8(CSCW2) Authors: Alexandros Efstratiou, Marina Efstratiou, Satrio Yudhoatmojo, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro
  • Conference Paper
    (2024)
    Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024 (WWW ’24), pp. 2347 - 2358 Author: Alexandros Efstratiou
  • Conference Paper
    Non-polar Opposites: Analyzing the Relationship between Echo Chambers and Hostile Intergroup Interactions on Reddit (2023)
    Proceedings of the 17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM ’23). Authors: Alexandros Efstratiou, Jeremy Blackburn, Tristan Caulfield, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou, Emiliano De Cristofaro
  • Conference Paper
    (2022)
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW ’22), 6(CSCW2) Authors: Alexandros Efstratiou, Emiliano De Cristofaro
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2022)