Media

  1. Podcast: #aBitOfCCS, On Document Selection with Keywords
  2. Newspaper: The Huffington Post, How to Raise an Environmentalist

Publications and Proceedings

  1. Hamilton-Palicki, S., Bravo, I., & Claessen, C. (2026). Don’t Look up: Evaluating the Tradeoff Between Performance and Sustainability of Text Classification Using Open LLMs. Social Science Computer Review, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393261473230
  2. Palicki, S., Walter, S., van Atteveldt, W., Beazer, A. & Bravo, I. (2023). Selecting Relevant Documents for Multilingual Content Analysis: An Evaluation of Keyword and Semantic Similarity Approaches. Computational Communication. 5 (2). https://doi.org/10.5117/CCR2023.2.5.PALI
  3. Palicki, S., Fouad, S., Adedoyin-Olowe, M., & Adballah, Z. (2021). Transfer Learning Approach for Detecting Psychological Distress in Brexit Tweets. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC ’21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 967-975. https://doi.org/10.1145/3412841.3441972
  4. Palicki, S., Azad, RMA (2021). GA-SVM for Evaluating Heroin Consumption Risk. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12633
  5. Balluff, P., Ho, J. C. ting, Gruber, J. B., Palicki, S., Palmer, A., Rossi, L., … Chan, C. hong. (2026). Newer, Larger, Better? A Critique of the Unreflective LLM Adoption in Communication Research. Political Communication, 43(3), 572–581. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2026.2618486
  6. Ogunkunle, D., Odebiyi, S., Beazer, A., Walter, S., Palicki, S. & Bravo, I. (In Review, 2025). Climate Change or Political Climate: Understanding Framing of Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Nigeria.
  7. Beazer, A., Palicki, S. & Walter, S. (2024). Intersectional Solidarity, Empathy, or Pity? Exploring Representations of Migrant Women and German and British Newspapers During the Pandemic. Ethnic and Racial Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2362456
  8. Beazer, A., Walter, S. & Palicki, S. (2023). On the Margins: Exploring Minority News Media Representations of Women During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Digital Journalism. 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2206039
  9. Unsworth, S., Palicki, S. & Lustig, J. (2016). The Impact of Mindfulness Meditation in Nature on Self- Nature Interconnectedness. Mindfulness. 7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-016-0542-8

Software

  1. Hamilton-Palicki, S. (2026). fastcorpus: A fast text analysis library for Python.
  2. Hamilton-Palicki, S., & Bravo, I. (2025). tidycarbon: Tidy R Wrapper for the CodeCarbon Emissions Tracker. https://github.com/seankellyhp/Tidycarbon
  3. Hamilton-Palicki, S. (2022). rKeywords: An R package for discovering keywords using English text. https://github.com/seankellyhp/rKeywords

Conference Presentations

  1. COMPTEXT Conference (2026). Birmingham, UK, presentation, “Tidycarbon: An R package for tracking and reducing the environmental costs of computational data analysis.”
  2. COMPTEXT Conference (2025). Vienna, AUT, presentation, “Don’t Look Up: Evaluating the Tradeoff between Accuracy and Sustainability of LLMs for Text Analysis.”
  3. Conference on Natural Language Processing, KONVENS (2024). Vienna, AUT, poster, “Using Large Language Models to Analyze Intersectional Media Portrayals of Identity.”
  4. COMPTEXT Conference (2024). Amsterdam, NLD, presentation, “The Language of Us and Them Over Time: A Diachronus Approach to Tracking and Element of Populism.”
  5. AI for Media: Science Meets Journalism, Bayerischer Rundfunk (2024). Munich, GER, poster, “Examining the Representation of Majority and Minority Groups in News Media using Computational Social Science Methods.”
  6. COMPTEXT Conference (2023). Glasgow, UK, presentation, “Comparing Machine Translation and Word Embedding Approaches to Document Retrieval and their Effects on Multilingual Text Analysis.”
  7. International Communication Assoc. Conference (2023). Toronto, CAN, presentation, “Bridging or polarizing? How computational and qualitative methods can help us understand expressions of solidarity in the news during the pandemic.”
  8. COMPTEXT Conference (2022), Dublin, IRL, presentation, “Discovering Inclusive Ethnicity/Race Keywords: A (Mostly) Computational Approach”.
  9. International Communication Assoc. Conference (2022), Paris, FRA, presentation “Compassion or Indifference: The role of news media in constructing empathy towards minoritized groups during the Covid-19 pandemic”.
  10. Council of Europeanists Conference (2022), Lisbon, PRT, presentation, “Discovering Inclusive Ethnicity/Race Keywords: A (Mostly) Computational Approach.”
  11. German Society for Journalism and Communication Science Conference (2022), Munich, GER, poster, “Discovering Inclusive Ethnicity/Race Keywords: A (Mostly) Computational Approach.”
  12. ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (2021), Online, presentation, “Transfer Learning Approach for Detecting Psychological Distress in Brexit Tweets.”