Anna Maria Planitzer, BA MA

Universitätsassistentin (Prae-Doc)

Main Research Areas and Interests

  • Political Communication
  • (Automated) Content Moderation
  • „Responsible“ Algorithms & AI
  • User Agency & User Effects

Anna Maria Planitzer (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate at the Political Communication (PolCom) Research Group at the University of Vienna, supervised by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sophie Lecheler (Professor of Political Communication, University of Vienna) and Dr. Svenja Schäfer, M.A.

In her cumulative dissertation project, Anna Maria Planitzer focuses on Automated Content Moderation and “Responsible“ Algorithms and AI, as well as its attitudinal, behavioral and emotional effects on users. She is also a research associate at the Transparent Automated Content Moderation (TACo) Project, led by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sophie Lecheler and Univ. Prof. Dr. Allan Hanbury (Professor of Data Intelligence, TU Wien). 

Prior to her predoctoral employment, Anna Maria Planitzer worked as a research and teaching assistant (Bachelor and Master level) to Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sophie Lecheler and the Political Communication Research Group, as well as a teaching assistant (Master level) to external lecturers at the Department of International Development Studies at the University of Vienna. She further completed a Bachelor and Master Degree in Communication Science, and is studying towards a second Master qualification in International Development Studies at the University of Vienna. Additionally, she has also worked in social management in different European countries. 

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Email: anna.maria.planitzer@univie.ac.at

Recent Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • Schäfer, S., Rebasso, I., Boyer, M. M., & Planitzer, A. M. (2023). Can We Counteract Hate? Effects of Online Hate Speech and Counter Speech on the Perception of Social Groups. Communication Research, doi.org/10.1177/0093650223120
  • Pachinger, P., Hanbury, A., Neidhardt, J., & Planitzer, A. M. (2023). Toward Disambiguating the Definitions of Abusive, Offensive, Toxic, and Uncivil Comments. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP). European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) 2023 (pp. 107-113).doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.c3nlp-1.11

Conferences

  • Planitzer, A. M., Lecheler, S., Schäfer, S. (2023, October 21): Walking the Content Moderation Tightrope: NavigatingDiverse Users Needs in (Automated) Toxicity Moderation[Paper Presentation]. The 24th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Doctoral Colloquium, Philadelphia, USA.
  • Planitzer, A. M., Lecheler, S., Schäfer, S. (2023, September22): The Forgotten Human-in-the-Loop: User Agency as a Means for Responsible Human-centric AI in Content Moderation [Paper Presentation]. AI Advancements in Public Opinion Research  Panel. 76th Annual Conference of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), Public Opinion Research in a Technology-Driven World, Salzburg, Austria.
  • Planitzer, A. M., Lecheler, S., Schäfer, S. (2023, September1): From Subjects to Actors: User Agency in AI-based Content Moderation  [Paper Presentation]. Algorithmic Media Panel. European Communication Researchand Education Association (ECREA), Political Communication Section Conference, Berlin, Germany.
  • Pachinger, P., Hanbury, A., Neidhardt, J., & Planitzer, A. M. (2023, July 13). Toward Disambiguating the Definitions of Abusive, Offensive, Toxic, and Uncivil Comments[Paper Presentation]. Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2023, Toronto, Canada.
  • Planitzer, A. M., Lecheler, S., Schäfer, S. (2023, July6): The Forgotten Human-in-the-Loop: User Agency as a Means for Responsible Automated Content Moderation [Paper and Dissertation Presentation]. European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Standing Group on Political Communication Summer School, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  • Pachinger, P., Hanbury, A., Neidhardt, J., & Planitzer, A. M. (2023, July 5). Toward Disambiguating the Definitions of Abusive, Offensive, Toxic, and Uncivil Comments[Paper Presentation]. Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP), European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) 2023, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
  • Planitzer, A. M. (2023, May 25): The Forgotten Human-in-the-Loop: User Agency as a Means for Responsible Automated Content Moderation [Dissertation Presentation]. 12th Annual Doctoral Consortium of the Communication and Technology Division. 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.
  • Planitzer, A. M., Lecheler, S., Schäfer, S. (2023, May 24): The Forgotten Human-in-the-Loop: User Agency as a Means for Responsible Human-centric AI in Content Moderation [Paper Presentation]. Building the Conditions for Responsible Human-Centric AI Systems Pre-Conference. Communication & Technology Division, Communication Law & Policy Division, Political Communication Division. 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.
  • Schäfer, S., Rebasso, I., Planitzer, A. M., & Boyer, M. M. (2022, June 9): Hate Speech als Treiber sozialer Ausgrenzung? Die Rolle von Hate Speech und Counter Speech für die Wahrnehmung sozialer Gruppen[Paper Presentation]. Effekte von Inzivilität Panel, Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Rezeptions- und Wirkungsforschung (RezFo), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK), Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • Schäfer, S., Rebasso, I., Planitzer, A. M., & Boyer, M. M. (2022, May 29): Hate speech as a fuel for social disintegration? Effects of hate speech and counter speech for the perception of social groups[Paper Presentation]. Hostile and Conspiratorial Media Panel, Mass Communication Division, 72th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Paris, France.
  • Boyer M. M., Schäfer S., Rebasso I., Planitzer A. M. (2021, September 29): Hate Speech as Fuel for Stereotype Polarization: Differential Effects of Online Hate Speech and Counter Speech[Paper Presentation]. Political Communication Preconference, Psychology and Communication Panel, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA) 2021, Seattle, USA

Invited Talks

  • Planitzer, A. M. (2023, March23): Social Media Governance: Mitigating the Detrimental Effects of Hate Speech and Incivility [Invited Talk]. Public Event: Digital Transformations: Critical and Constructive Perspectives. Hosted by the International Research Center for Social and Ethical Issues and the Austrian Association for Political Education, Salzburg, Austria.

Chairs and Discussants

  • Planitzer, A. M. (2023, September22). Studies on Social Media [Panel Chair]. 76th Annual Conferenceof the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), Public Opinion Research in a Technology-Driven World, Salzburg, Austria.
  • Planitzer, A. M. (2023, September22). Case Studies [Panel Chair]. 76th Annual Conference of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), Public Opinion Research in a Technology-Driven World, Salzburg, Austria.