Hotpoliticslab February 2021

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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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Online Hot Politics Lab 19/2
by Maaike Homan 16 Feb '21

16 Feb '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (February 19) from 15:00 till 16:00 we will have another exciting Online Hot Politics Lab meeting. In this lab meeting Michael Bruter (Department of Government, London School of Economics) will talk about: "The Psychology of our Behavior in the Voting Booth". 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.…> 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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Online Hot Politics Lab 12/2
by Maaike Homan 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (February 12) from 15:00 till 16:00 we will have another exciting Online Hot Politics Lab meeting. This time Yanna Krupnikov (Department of Political Science, Stony Brook University) will give a talk titled "When and Why Affective Polarization Affects Politics". See below the abstract of the project she will present. 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.…> at 3pm (CET). Title: When and Why Affective Polarization Affects Politics Co-authors: James Druckman, Samara Klar, Matt Levendusky and John Barry Ryan Abstract: Affective polarization is one of the most discussed phenomena of American politics of the last decade. Especially pivotal to affective polarization is partisan animosity - a dislike for the opposing party - which has emerged as more powerful than affinity for one's own party. Although researchers and journalists have often assumed that the affective polarization should have important down-stream effects on political outcomes, there has been relatively little consideration of the political consequences of this phenomenon (Iyengar et al. 2019). The research that has tracked its possible political consequences, however, found that few exist (Broockman et al. 2021). In this project we take a step back and re-consider the role of affective polarization in American politics. First, we consider the individual foundations of affective polarization. Second, we consider why one would (or would not) expect affective polarization to have political implications. Finally, using an over-time panel study, we analyze the conditions under which affective polarization may be most likely to influence political behavior. 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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Online Hot Politics Lab 5/2
by Maaike Homan 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (February 5) from 15:00 till 16:00 we will have an exciting lab meeting. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Constantine Boussalis (Trinity College Dublin) will give a talk titled "Multimodal Determinants of Voter Impression Formation of Female Political Candidates During Televised Debates". 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.…> 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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