Hotpoliticslab September 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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Hot Politics Lab 30/9
by Maaike Homan 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

Hi everyone, This Friday (30/09) from 15:00 - 16:00 there will be another Hot Politics Lab meeting. In this Graduate Friday session of the Hot Politics Lab, PhD candidate Isabella Rebasso (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "Does confidence in political knowledge affect our emotions?". Afterwards PhD candidate Sun Young Park (Harvard University) will give a talk titled "Measuring Norms of (In)tolerance: How Partisan Animosity Spreads in Social Relations.". 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). You can check out the remaining program of this semester on our website<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotpol…>. You can also watch any of the previous online hot politics lab meetings via the labs 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 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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Hot Politics Lab Fall Program
by Maaike Homan 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

Hi everyone, Hope you had a great summer! The Hot Politics Lab is back this fall with a series of great talks! See the program for this semester below. The next talk will be Friday the 16th of September from 15:00-16:00. In this meeting, Han van der Maas (Department of Psychology, UvA) will present "Cascading transitions in psycho-social systems". Below the abstract. The talk will be followed by a Q&A. 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). Abstract: We all worry about the spread of conspiracy theories, the impact of addiction on people and society, and are amazed by the power of collective learning. My hypothesis is that these apparently very different processes share the same type of dynamics, in which sudden transitions within individuals are part of societal transitions. I will present my intended ERC research on these cascading transitions and will focus primarily on the issue of polarization. Hot Politics Fall Program: 16-9 Han van der Maas "Cascading transitions in psycho-social systems" 30-9 Graduate Friday 14-10 Dominique Wirz: "A hostile media effect? Subjective and objective exposure to hate speech in Switzerland." 4-11 Falvio Azevedo: "Measuring Ideology: Current practices, its consequences, and recommendations." 11-11 Jochem Tolsma: "Political Polarisation and Residential Segregation" 18-11 Frank Gonzalez: ""Inhibition or Ideology? The Neural Mechanisms of Racial Priming in Politics." 25-11 Graduate Friday: Maaike Homan + Christian Pipal 2-12 Christin Scholz: "to be announced" Hope to see you all the 16th! 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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