Computational Social Science: Visuals and Text
Developing and applying computational methods — topic modeling, visual analysis, LLM-assisted classification, and open-source tools — for large-scale text and image data, including how visual framing and data visualizations shape political meaning-making.
Repositories & Packages
- VisTopics — replication code and framework for visual semantic topic modeling of video and image data. Project site: aysedeniz09.github.io/VisTopics
vistopics— Python package for video and image topic modeling.- Arabic and English OCR — tools for OCR processing of Arabic and English visual text data
2026
Visual Framing in the AI Era: Lessons from Manual Approaches for Computational Methods
Kareem El Damanhoury, Carol Winkler, Ayse D. Lokmanoglu & Keyu Alexander Chen Glanz
Computational Communication Research
2026
International media coverage of the 2023 Gaza War: A hybrid methodological approach to cross-cultural visual analysis
Kareem El Damanhoury , Ayse D. Lokmanoglu Virginia Massignan & Faisal Saleh
Media, War & Conflict
2025
Topic modeling of video and image data: a visual semantic unsupervised approach
Ayse D. Lokmanoglu & Dror Walter
Communication Methods and Measures
2025
VisTopics: A Visual Semantic Unsupervised Approach to Topic Modeling of Video and Image Data
Ayse D. Lokmanoglu & Dror Walter
arXiv
2025
Enhancing LLMs for Governance with Human Oversight: Evaluating and Aligning LLMs on Expert Classification of Climate Misinformation for Detecting False or Misleading Claims about Climate Change
Mowafak Alhalam, Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, Sol Hart, & Erik C. Nisbet
AAAI 2025 Workshop on AI Governance: Alignment, Morality, and Law
2024
The Backstory to “Swaying the Public”: A Design Chronicle of Election Forecast Visualizations
Fumeng Yang, Mandi Cai, Chloe Mortenson, Hoda Fakhari, Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Erik C. Nisbet, & Matthew Kay
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
2023
Swaying the Public? Impacts of Election Forecast Visualizations on Emotion, Trust, and Intention in the 2022 U.S. Midterms
Fumeng Yang, Mandi Cai, Chloe Mortenson, Hoda Fakhari, Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Erik C. Nisbet, & Matthew Kay
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
2023
A Picture is Worth a Thousand (S)words: Classification and Diffusion of Memes on a Partisan Media Platform
Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, Mowafak Allaham, Rod Abhari, Chloe Mortenson, Esteban Villa Turek & GNET (Global Network on Extremism & Technology)
Global Network on Extremism & Terrorism (GNET)