SOCIAL COMPUTING

SOCIAL COMPUTING

The meeting point of social sciences and computing.

Helsinki Social Computing is an interdisciplinary research group focused on computers and social science. Our work spans across political science, human-computer interaction, design, and data science. We study both the role of computers in our society – the substance – and means to conduct digital and computational research in social science – the methods.

Recent blog posts


  1. 2026-04-06

    Generatiivisen tekoälyn käyttöä arvotetaan keskenään ristiriitaisilla tavoilla sosiaalisesta kontekstista riippuen. Käytön edistäminen on moraalista toimintaa siinä missä sen kritisointikin, vaikka se omassa viiteryhmässä esitettäisiinkin objektiivisesti rationaalisena ja väistämättömänä.


  2. 2026-02-09

    As we live in the (late) summer of AI, cautious notes of the upcoming AI winter may sound still far away.


  3. 2026-02-03

    Software is not value-free.


  4. 2025-10-15

    Quite a bit of work has explored what kinds of ideological biases LLMs have.


  5. 2025-09-22

    Sosiaalisen median poliittisilla keskusteluilla on huono maine. Tuoreen artikkelimme mukaan ihanteellista verkkokeskustelun osallistujaa määrittää pätevyys, vastuullisuus ja vilpittömyys, sekä sitoutuminen keskustelun edistämiseen.

Recent publications


  • Big Data & Society (2026)

    Recently, there has been increasing interest in using language models to examine the society.


  • Quantitative Science Studies (2026)

    Has the emerging field of computational social science grown increasingly intellectually integrated over time, or does the field remain fragmented into several distinct epistemic communities? Because research literature is still inconclusive in this regard, we use data about citations to study the development of the intellectual structure of computational social science.


  • Business & Society (2026)

    Firms increasingly use nonmarket communication, including communication related to corporate political activity, social responsibility, and activism.


  • (2026)

    Smart garments and circular-economy endeavours nurture imaginaries of sustainable futures.


  • (2026)

    Against the backdrop of shifting political landscapes, this workshop approaches the fragmented politics, values, and imaginaries in Human–Computer Interaction through the lens of ideologies.