The University of Vienna’s Department of Communication is among the leading media and communication departments worldwide. Its interdisciplinary research unit, the Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL), was established in 2016, aims to advance the use of computerized tools and algorithms for collecting, processing, analyzing, and visualizing large-scale, complex data. Through various projects dealing with the analysis of media content and its effects, media and migration research, as well as understanding citizens’ political attitudes, perceptions, and behavior in European democracies, the CCL is well connected to the fields of Communication Science, Political Science, and Social Anthropology.