Avner Kantor

Great few days at the Political Networks Conference in Manchester, presenting "Information Environments and the Structure of Political Discussion Networks." Thank you @leifeld.bsky.social for this wonderful event.

This is my research: Denser stories don't keep the crowd. They keep the readers who show their work, and that's a trade worth making. www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/we-a...

Data journalism is supposed to inform the public. Does it actually change how they talk to each other? We ran large-scale test: 6,400 NYT stories, 935,000 comments, 8 years. #DataJournalism #dataVisualization @upshot.nytimes.com #ComputationalSocialScience www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Presented at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Israeli Economic Association yesterday. New paper on how costly and empowering information environments shape collective engagement online, combining game-theoretic modeling with large-scale NYT comment data. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I’m happy to participate at #IEEEVIS and meet an incredible community that I truly want to be part of! Great conversations and so much inspiration. My poster explores how generative AI can drive engagement with data visualizations. Here’s me with it 👇

@ieeevis.bsky.social Now you see me

Presented my research on discussion networks in data journalism today at the Israel Statistics and Data Science Association Conference.

Excited to share that my paper "Data, Sense, and Sensibility: How Data Journalism Style Shapes Interactivity" has been accepted to #AoIR2025 in Brazil!

Excited to share my first PhD article at #HICSS2025! 🌟 I explored how @UpshotNYT data fosters meaningful conversations. It’s the largest study yet on data journalism and its audience. [https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/8a93e946-1543-482b-a50b-abaadd0fa454/content]