Hotpoliticslab April 2022

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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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Workshop “Advances in Affect and Politics”: April 21 and April 22
by Bert Bakker 11 Apr '22

11 Apr '22

Dear Hot Politics Lab enthusiasts, The Hot Politics Lab is organizing a two-day workshop at the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Science titled “Advances in Affect and Politics” on Thursday April 21 and Friday April 22 2022. Speakers include Lene Aarøe (Aarhus University), Manos Tsakiris (Royal Holloway), Vin Arceneaux (Sciences Po), Lala Muradova (Dublin City University), Agneta Fischer (UvA), Disa Sauter (UvA), Alan Sanfey (Radboud University), Carsten de Dreu (University of Leiden) and some of your friends from the Hot Politics Lab. Attached you can find the program. I would like to hereby invite you to participate in the workshop. Note that the meeting will be offline only, and there will be no hybrid options. There are no costs associated with participation and coffee and lunch are included. If you would like to attend, please send an email to me (b.n.bakker(a)uva.nl<mailto:b.n.bakker@uva.nl>) by Friday April 15 the latest. It is also possible to attend one of the two days but please register (send me an email) as the venue would like to know who will be in the building. Due to funding restrictions, the possibility to join for the tour in the Rembrandt house and dinner on Thursday are more limited for non-presenting participants (first come, first serve). So, if you would like to hear some cutting edge talks on the role of emotions in politics, then this workshop might be something for you. Feel free to spread the program to others’ who might be interested. Thanks a lot, Bert Dr. Bert N. Bakker Associate professor Amsterdam School of Communication Research University of Amsterdam Associate Editor at the Journal of Experimental Political Science Website: bertbakker.com<http://www.bertbakker.com/> Lab: HotPolitics Lab<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/> Twitter: @bnbakker<https://twitter.com/bnbakker> Tel: +31 6 11 72 97 17 [logo hot politics]

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PhD Opening at Hot Politics Lab
by Maaike Homan 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

Hi everyone, We are hiring at the Hot Politics Lab! Please spread this message: Dear colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to the following PhD position, for which we are seeking a candidate (deadline for applications April 18, 2022). The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is looking for a PhD candidate to conduct research in the project "Radical Activation: Threats, Emotions, and the Psychological Roots of Populist Radical Right Support". The project is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and led by Dr. Matthijs Rooduijn. The PhD candidate will be embedded in the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, and will be part of a vibrant research community as a member of both the Hot Politics Lab (an interdisciplinary research group focusing on political psychology) and the Challenges to Democratic Representation program group (which examines the consequences of current political developments and their historical roots for democratic governance). Further information about the vacancy can be found here<https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-in-Political-Psychology-with-a-Focus-o…>. In case you know potentially interested and qualified candidates, I would highly appreciate it if you could share this information. Best wishes, Matthijs Dr. Matthijs Rooduijn | Department of Political Science | University of Amsterdam | Nieuwe Achtergracht 166 | 1018 WV Amsterdam | The Netherlands | E-mail: m.rooduijn(a)uva.nl<mailto:m.rooduijn@uva.nl> | Twitter: @mrooduijn | Homepage: matthijsrooduijn.nl 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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