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Short Bio (50-70 words)
Petter Törnberg researches how digital platforms and AI reshape public discourse, political conflict, urban life, and democratic institutions. His work brings computational social science into conversation with social theory, asking how technologies shape collective life and how they might be designed and governed differently. He is the author of Intimate Communities of Hate and Seeing Like a Platform.
Extended Bio
Petter Törnberg studies how digital platforms and AI become part of social and political life. His work sits at the intersection of digital politics, platform governance, AI, and social theory, and combines computational methods with conceptual analysis.
His research asks how platforms shape attention, political disagreement, misinformation, urban change, and democratic institutions. He is the author of Intimate Communities of Hate and Seeing Like a Platform, and has written for both academic and public audiences.
Interview Topics
- Misinformation, political communication, and radical-right mobilization
- How platform design shapes polarization and democratic discourse
- AI and large language models in social research
- Platform governance and digital state power
- Social simulation and the future of computational social science
Useful Background
- Based at the University of Amsterdam
- Research areas: digital politics, misinformation, polarization, platform governance, AI, and society
- Methods: computational analysis, social simulation, and social theory
- Books: Intimate Communities of Hate and Seeing Like a Platform
Media Contact
- Email: petter.tornberg@uva.nl
- Institutional profile: University of Amsterdam profile