The keynote and following discussions will focus on digital platforms and digitized communication in conflict studies. Prof Dr. Uitermark will present his work on digital platforms, social movements, and urban subcultures. Annie Waldherr will present her work in the Computational Communication Science Lab at the University of Vienna, where she and her team seek to advance various fields of communication science such as journalism and political communication through the use of computerized tools and algorithms for collecting, processing, analyzing, and visualizing large-scale, complex data.