Hotpoliticslab April 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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Hot Politics Lab 30/4
by Maaike Homan 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (April 30) from 15:00 - 16:00 it is "Graduate Friday" in the Online Hot Politics Lab. In this meeting, PhD candidate Tobias Widmann (European University Institute) will give a talk titled "How Renewable Energy Divides Politics. The Impact of Wind Turbines on Moral-Emotional Language in Political Discourse". See the abstract below. Afterwards, PhD candidate Maaike Homan (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "Same Anger, Different Perception? Gender Bias in Emotion Perception of Male and Female Politicians". 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). Abstract for "How Renewable Energy Divides Politics. The Impact of Wind Turbines on Moral-Emotional Language in Political Discoursee" (Tobias Widmann): Climate change became an increasingly polarized issue over recent years. Research has shown that elite cues and, in particular, the emotional framing of the climate change debate matter for the shaping of public opinion. Yet, we still have limited knowledge about factors influencing emotional political discourse. In this study, I investigate how local exposure to climate-mitigation policies impacts the political debate. To do so, I combine information on wind turbines with parliamentary speeches from Germany. Using novel machine learning classifiers, I measure discrete emotional appeals in parliamentary speeches. Relying on generalized difference-in-difference models, I will investigate how individual politicians change their moral-emotional rhetoric after wind turbines have been constructed in their electoral district. 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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Hot Politics Lab 23/4
by Maaike Homan 20 Apr '21

20 Apr '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (April 23) from 15:00 - 16:00 we will have another lab meeting. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Liz Connors (University of South Carolina) will give a talk titled "Partisan Social Pressure and Affective Polarization." See the abstract of her talk below. 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). Partisan Social Pressure and Affective Polarization American politics today is affectively polarized-partisans report disliking and distrusting out-partisans while liking and trusting in-partisans. I examine if this climate could encourage partisans to report higher levels of affective polarization. I test this with two survey experiments (one with a convenience sample and one with a nationally representative sample from NORC's AmeriSpeak panel) and a set of analyses of 2008 American National Election Studies (ANES) data. My findings demonstrate that there is partisan social pressure to report affective polarization and that this could inflate survey responses, suggesting implications for the measurement of polarization, greater nuance in our understanding of polarization, and the potential for a "snowball effect" of political climates-where a climate of polarization could beget more polarization. Future work is needed for a broader understanding of how social context shapes expressions of partisanship. 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 16/4
by Maaike Homan 12 Apr '21

12 Apr '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (April 16) from 15:00 - 16:00 there will be another Online Hot Politics Lab meeting. In this session, Theresa Kuhn (University of Amsterdam) will present "Viral Solidarity? EU Solidarity and Risk-Sharing in the COVID-19 Crisis". See paper attached. 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…>. 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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FW: UNPOP Vacancy and Contact
by Maaike Homan 08 Apr '21

08 Apr '21

Hi everyone, See below a vacancy for a postdoc position that might be of interest to some of you. 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] From: Cristiano Gianolla <cgianolla(a)ces.uc.pt<mailto:cgianolla@ces.uc.pt>> Sent: woensdag 7 april 2021 20:11 To: Gijs Schumacher <G.Schumacher(a)uva.nl<mailto:G.Schumacher@uva.nl>>; Matthijs Rooduijn <m.rooduijn(a)uva.nl<mailto:m.rooduijn@uva.nl>>; Bert Bakker <B.N.Bakker(a)uva.nl<mailto:B.N.Bakker@uva.nl>> Subject: UNPOP Vacancy and Contact Dear Bert, Matthijs and Gijs, I recently started to coordinate the project UNPOP<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fces.uc.pt…> - UNpacking POPulism: Comparing the formation of emotion narratives and their effects on political behaviour at the Centre for Social studies of the University of Coimbra (Portugal). We have opened a research position for a post-doc researcher with experience and interest in populism and emotions, more information here<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feuraxess.…>. I would be grateful if you could circulate the call to potential candidates. I also hope that we will be able to share information about our research and initiatives in the near future and look forward to receiving any information that you think may be interesting to share with us. Cordially, Cristiano Cristiano Gianolla Researcher | Centre for Social Studies | University of Coimbra Investigador | Centro de Estudos Sociais | Universidade de Coimbra CES.uc.pt/en/ces/pessoas/investigadoras-es/cristiano-gianolla<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fces.uc.pt%…> ORCID.org/0000-0002-2809-0453<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Forcid.org%…> CIENCIAVITAE.pt/1013-878C-6EF9<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcienciavi…> coimbra.ACADEMIA.edu/CristianoGianolla<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcoimbra.a…>

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Hot Politics Lab 9/4
by Maaike Homan 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

Hi everyone, Hope you all had a great Easter break! We are back again with another online Hot Politics lab meeting this Friday (April 9) from 15:00 - 16:00. In this meeting, our new Hot Politics lab's postdoc Diamantis Petropoulos-Petalas will give a talk titled: "The believing brain: how cognitive neuroscience can inform us about decision-making in the political world". 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…>. 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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