Alejandra Regla-Vargas, Ph.D.

Computational Social Scientist

Research

My research interests lie at the intersection of computational social science, technology and society, and public interest technology. I enjoy collaborating with and learning from researchers across various disciplines. Please reach out if you are interested in collaborating! πŸš€

Under Review

2025 Racial Framing Contests: How Anti-Asian Racism and its Resistance Enacted Racial Projects During COVID-19.” Under review at Big Data and Society.

2025 “Analyzing Visual Discourse in Digital Activism: A Generative AI Approach to Studying Hashtag Hijacking in Social Movements.” Under review at Social Movement Studies.

2025 The Tradeoffs of Celebrity Activism: BTS, K-Pop Fandoms, and the Complex Role of Star Power in Social Movements.” Under review at Poetics.

Published

2024 Large Language Models, Social Demography,
and Hegemony: Comparing Authorship in Human and Synthetic Text. Journal of Big Data 11(1):138.

2023 Conceptualizations of Race: Essentialism and Constructivism