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Career

· Professor, University of California, Berkeley2020–
· Ph.D. in Scandinavian Language and Literature, University of California, Berkeley1992–
· M.A. in Scandinavian Language and Literature, University of California, Berkeley1986–
· A.B. in Folklore and Mythology, Harvard College1985–
· Associate Faculty Director, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)
· Professor, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Publications (84)

Conspiracy in the time of corona: automatic detection of emerging COVID-19 conspiracy theories in social media and the news
Journal of Computational Social Science · 2020
244
cited
An automated pipeline for the discovery of conspiracy and conspiracy theory narrative frameworks: Bridgegate, Pizzagate and storytelling on the web
PLoS ONE · 2020
100
cited
"It Happened Not Too Far from Here...": A Survey of Legend Theory and Characterization
1990
89
cited
“Mommy Blogs” and the Vaccination Exemption Narrative: Results From A Machine-Learning Approach for Story Aggregation on Parenting Social Media Sites
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance · 2016
88
cited
Conspiracy in the Time of Corona: Automatic detection of Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories in Social Media and the News
arXiv.org · 2020
79
cited
Trawling in the Sea of the Great Unread: Sub-corpus topic modeling and Humanities research
2013
75
cited
Heroes and Lies: Storytelling Tactics among Paramedics
2000
68
cited
Computational folkloristics
Communications of the ACM · 2012
67
cited
Interpreting legend : Danish storytellers and their repertoires
1996
39
cited
A multiscale theory for the dynamical evolution of sentiment in novels
International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing · 2016
36
cited
Big Folklore: A Special Issue on Computational Folkloristics
2016
35
cited
"How Do You Know She's a Witch?": Witches, Cunning Folk, and Competition in Denmark
2000
31
cited
The Folklore Macroscope Challenges for a Computational Folkloristics
2013
31
cited
Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories: QAnon, 5G, the New World Order and Other Viral Ideas
Journal of American Folklore · 2023
27
cited
An Automated Pipeline for Character and Relationship Extraction from Readers Literary Book Reviews on Goodreads.com
Web Science Conference · 2020
21
cited
LEGENDARY PERFORMANCES: Folklore, Repertoire and Mapping
2010
20
cited
A Resistant Strain: Revealing the Online Grassroots Rise of the Antivaccination Movement
Computer · 2017
14
cited
Comparative K-Pop Choreography Analysis through Deep-Learning Pose Estimation across a Large Video Corpus
Digital Humanities Quarterly · 2021
13
cited
Who ya gonna call?. Ministers and the mediation of ghostly threat in Danish legend tradition
1998
12
cited
Erving Goffman: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
2016
11
cited
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