November 2021 - Hotpoliticslab

Reddit dataset RoBERTa (populism and emotions) computational linguistics
by David Abadi 05 Jun '24

05 Jun '24

Dear colleagues, Herewith, I’d like to share some news with researchers interested in populism, emotions, framing, media bias and social identity. Last year, Agneta Fischer and I collaborated with colleagues from Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at UvA (Pere-Lluís Huguet-Cabot, Verna Dankers, Ekaterina Shutova), and recently we published two papers in the field of computational linguistics (as listed below). For our latest paper, we developed a novel deep learning NLP model based on RoBERTa (Liu, 2019) to detect populist attitudes, media bias, emotions and social identity. In the near future, our dataset (consisting of 6861 annotated Reddit comments) will be made publicly available through GitHub for the research community to be used. Huguet Cabot, P. L. H., Abadi, D., Fischer, A., & Shutova, E. (2021, January). Us vs. Them: A Dataset of Populist Attitudes, News Bias and Emotions. arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.11956. https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11956 Huguet Cabot, P. L., Dankers, V., Abadi, D., Fischer, A., & Shutova, E. (2020, November). The Pragmatics behind Politics: Modelling Metaphor, Framing and Emotion in Political Discourse. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Findings (pp. 4479-4488). http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.findings-emnlp.402 Feel free to contact me with any questions. David (also on behalf of my co-authors) David Abadi (Ph.D.) Postdoctoral Researcher Social Psychology Program, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam Interdisciplinary Centre for Emotion (AICE)<https://aice.uva.nl/members/members.html#anker-david-abadi> DEMOS - Democratic Efficacy and the Varieties of Populism in Europe (H2020-EU.3.6.1.1., H2020-EU.3.6.1.2.)<https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/219150/factsheet/en> Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=_UlNbPAAAAAJ&view_op=list_w…>

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Hot Politics Lab 3/11
by Maaike Homan 30 Nov '21

30 Nov '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (December 3) from 15:00 - 16:00, there will be another exciting lab meeting. In this session, Leonie Huddy (Stony Brook University) will give a talk titled "Nationalism and Party Politics". The talk will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuva-live.…> or join the live session in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) at 3pm (CET). If you missed any of the previous online hot politics lab meetings, or just want to watch them again, you can find all video and audio recordings of our last online meetings in our Online Hot Politics Lab Meetings archive here: http://www.hotpolitics.eu/lab-meetings-archive/<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotpol…>. Have a great rest of the week and hope to see you all Friday! Best, Maaike Homan PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research University of Amsterdam Room B10.01 [logo hot politics]

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Hot Politics Lab 26/11
by Maaike Homan 23 Nov '21

23 Nov '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (November 26th) from 15:00 - 16:00 it's Graduate Friday at the Online Hot Politics Lab. In this session, PhD candidate Christian Pipal (University of Amsterdam) will present a pre-analysis plan titled "Do politicians change their rhetoric over time?". Afterwards Matthijs Gillissen (Radboud University) will give a talk titled "Empathic Concern and Party Lines: Empathy within a Multiparty System". The talks will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://uvalive.zoom.us/j/96492065253 or join the live session in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) at 3pm (CET). If you missed any of the previous online hot politics lab meetings, or just want to watch them again, you can find all video and audio recordings of our last online meetings in our Online Hot Politics Lab Meetings archive here: http://www.hotpolitics.eu/lab-meetings-archive/<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotpol…>. Have a great rest of the week and hope to see you all Friday! Maaike Homan PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research University of Amsterdam Room B10.01 [logo hot politics]

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correct zoom link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
by Maaike Homan 19 Nov '21

19 Nov '21

Hi everyone, This afternoon from 14:00 - 16:00 there will be a special meeting at the Hot Politics Lab. Instead of our regular lab meeting, we are hosting the Dutch Political Psychology meeting. Unfortunately the zoom link I sent around doesn't work, so here is the correct one for this afternoon's Political Psychology Meeting: The correct zoom link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuva-live.…> Zoom attendants will also have the opportunity to ask questions. See below the program. Program: 14:00-14:45 Yasin Koc (University of Groningen, Department of Social Psychology) "Apology doesn't kill the guilt!" Advantage group's support for social change increases after apologizing to the disadvantaged group" 14:45-15:00 Coffee break 15:00-15:45 Jamie Settle (College of William & Mary, Department of Government). "What Goes Without Saying: Navigating Political Discussion in America" 15:45-16:00 Announcements Looking forward to seeing you online this afternoon! Best, Maaike Homan PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research University of Amsterdam Room B10.01 [logo hot politics]

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Hot Politics Lab / Pol Psych Meeting 19/11
by Maaike Homan 16 Nov '21

16 Nov '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (November 19th) there will be a special meeting at the Hot Politics Lab. Instead of our regular lab meeting, we are hosting the Dutch Political Psychology meeting. During this session, Yasin Koc (University of Groningen, Department of Social Psychology) and Jamie Settle (College of William & Mary, Department of Government) will both give a talk, see the program below. Note that the meeting starts 1 hour earlier: from 14:00 till 16:00. Everyone is welcome to join, by using this link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/81521726247<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuva-live.…>. Zoom attendants will also have the opportunity to ask questions. Program: 14:00-13:45 Yasin Koc (University of Groningen, Department of Social Psychology) "Apology doesn't kill the guilt!" Advantage group's support for social change increases after apologizing to the disadvantaged group" 14:45-15:00 Coffee break 15:00-15:45 Jamie Settle (College of William & Mary, Department of Government). "What Goes Without Saying: Navigating Political Discussion in America" 15:45-16:00 Announcements Anyone who wants to stay on after the meeting for informal conversation is welcome to. Looking forward to virtually seeing you online on the 19th! Best (also on behalf of Jojanneke van der Toorn, Bert Bakker, and Ruthie Pliskin), Maaike Homan PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research University of Amsterdam Room B10.01 [logo hot politics]

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Hot Politics Lab 12/11
by Maaike Homan 09 Nov '21

09 Nov '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (November 12) from 15:00 - 16:00, there will be another exciting lab meeting. In this session, Hannah Nam (Stony Brook University) will give a talk titled "Genetic justification: Can narratives about genetic science impact racial attitudes and political preferences". The talk will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuva-live.…> or join the live session in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) at 3pm (CET). If you missed any of the previous online hot politics lab meetings, or just want to watch them again, you can find all video and audio recordings of our last online meetings in our Online Hot Politics Lab Meetings archive here: http://www.hotpolitics.eu/lab-meetings-archive/<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotpol…>. Have a great rest of the week and hope to see you all Friday! Best, Maaike Homan PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research University of Amsterdam Room B10.01 [logo hot politics]

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Hot Politics Lab 5/11
by Maaike Homan 01 Nov '21

01 Nov '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (November 5th) from 15:00 - 16:00 there will be another exciting Hot Politics Lab meeting. During this lab meeting, Giselinde Kuipers (KU Leuven) will give a talk titled "Humor and Polarization: How humor can drive people apart, in politics and beyond". See below a short bio of Giselinde. The talk will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuva-live.…> or join the live session in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) at 3pm (CET). Giselinde Kuipers is research professor at KU Leuven in Belgium. Giselinde Kuipers (PhD, U of Amsterdam, 2001) is a cultural sociologist who studies the social shaping of cultural standards, and the consequences of such standards for such standards for social inequalities, identities and interactions. She has published extensively on humor, beauty, popular culture, cultural globalization, media, memes, translation, cycling, fashion, journalism and various other cultural forms, and is the author of Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke (second revised edition 2015). She was the editor-in-chief of the HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research and is the editor of the forthcoming De Gruyter Handbook of Humor Research (2022). She is also the co-curator of an international online exhibit on Humor in the European public sphere, which will be launched in the fall of 2021. If you missed any of the previous online hot politics lab meetings, or just want to watch them again, you can find all video and audio recordings of our last online meetings in our Online Hot Politics Lab Meetings archive here: http://www.hotpolitics.eu/lab-meetings-archive/<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotpol…>. Have a great rest of the week and hope to see you all Friday! Best, Maaike Maaike Homan PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research University of Amsterdam Room B10.01 [logo hot politics]

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