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Martin Arvidsson

Assistant Professor

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Publications

2026

Martin Arvidsson, Pablo Bello, Marc Keuschnigg (2026) The structural origins of the conservative online media niche, US Twitter 2022 NETWORK SCIENCE, Vol. 14, Article e8 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/nws.2026.10029

2025

Martin Arvidsson, Peter Hedström, Benjamin Jarvis, Marc Keuschnigg (2025) On the intersection of analytical sociology and computational social science Handbook of Computational Social Science, p. 56-71 (Chapter in book) https://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781802207309.00011
Martin Arvidsson, Peter Hedström, Marc Keuschnigg (2025) Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data Sociological Science, Vol. 12, p. 715-742 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.15195/v12.a29
Selcan Mutgan, Peter Hedström, Martin Arvidsson (2025) Ethnic preferences, opportunity structures, and the school segregation process European Sociological Review, Vol. 42, p. 72-86 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027

2024

Martin Arvidsson, Marc Keuschnigg (2024) Estimating social influence using machine learning and digital trace data The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning (Chapter in book)

Research

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Cultural Dynamics

Formulating and testing theories of peer influence among interconnected consumers of culture i.e. songs, books, movies, etc. to understand the emergence of hits, the establishment of new artists and genres, and cultural change more generally.
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Social Network Analysis

Developing and applying novel methods to examine the formation of social ties and the consequences of these ties for patterns of segregation, inequality, polarization and social change.

Coworkers

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Siddartha Aradhya
Visiting Senior Lecturer
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Åsa Arnoldson
Senior Coordinator
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Maria Brandén
Professor, Head of Division
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Elis Carlberg Larsson
Postdoc
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Tangbin Chen
PhD student
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Zakarias Dahlberg
Research Assistant
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Adel Daoud
Senior Associate Professor
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Hendrik Erz
Research Engineer
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Laura Fürsich
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Josef Ginnerskov
Postdoc
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Lovisa Gunnar
Research Assistant
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Jacob Habinek
Associate Professor, Docent
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Peter Hedström
Professor
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Miriam Hurtado Bodell
Postdoc
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Martin Hällsten
Visiting Professor
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Benjamin Jarvis
Associate Professor
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Mohammad Kakooei
Postdoc
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Simon Karlsson
Research Assistant
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Marc Keuschnigg
Professor
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Dorottya Kisfalusi
Adjunct Associate Professor
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Maël Lecoursonnais
Postdoc
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Jesper Lindmarker
PhD student
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Erik Liss
Postdoc
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Sabrina Mai
Postdoc
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Sarah Mitchell
Coordinator
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Satiyabooshan Murugaboopathy
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Selcan Mutgan
Assistant Professor
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Carl Nordlund
Associate Professor, Docent
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Axel Norgren
PhD student
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Etienne Ollion
Adjunct Professor
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Marta Rado
Visiting Senior Lecturer
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Erik Rosenqvist
Assistant Professor
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Alexandra Rottenkolber
PhD student
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Kazuki Sakamoto
PhD student
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Niels Selling
Adjunct Associate Professor
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Christian Steglich
Associate Professor
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Pontus Strimling
Adjunct Professor
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Károly Takács
Professor
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Eduardo Tapia
Associate Professor
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Sarah Valdez
Associate Professor
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Eszter Vit
Postdoc
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Simon Walo
Postdoc
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Karl Wennberg
Visiting Professor
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Emanuel Wittberg
Postdoc

News

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Wide social influence can make the unexpected happen

Sociologists from Linköping University analyse Spotify data to learn about the spreading of music and cultural change more generally.

SEK23 million for research in humanities and the social sciences

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond grants over SEK 23 million to research projects in the humanities and social sciences at Linköping University. These include the significance of names, the consequences of uranium mining, political polarisation, and robots.
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Robert K. Merton Award to IAS

Peter Hedström and Martin Arvidsson together with Francois Collet won the Robert K Merton best article award for their paper "The Trojan-horse mechanism: How networks reduce gender segregation."

Organisation

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS)

IAS conduct cutting-edge research on important social, political and cultural matters. The research is sociological - in its original and broadly conceived meaning.
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Department of Management and Engineering (IEI)

The Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) strengthens and develops tomorrow’s industry, business world and society by ground-breaking research, education and innovation.