VIRENA: Virtual Arena for Research, Education, and Democratic Innovation

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arXiv:2602.12207v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Digital platforms shape how people communicate, deliberate, and form opinions. Studying these dynamics has become harder because of restricted data access, ethical limits on real-world experiments, and the technical demands of existing research tools. VIRENA (Virtual Arena) is a platform for controlled experiments in realistic social media environments. Several participants can interact at the same time in replicas of feed-based platforms