October 2023 - 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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upcoming lab meeting
by Céline Laffineur 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, This Friday (3rd November 2023) the Dutch Political Psychology Meeting will take place from 10:30 – 16:00. Everyone is welcome to join in person at the University of Amsterdam (Bushuis building). See the program and all the details below. Note that the meeting is only in person and cannot be attended online. In the meantime, you can watch any of the previous online Hot Politics Lab meetings via the youtube<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg8cj8FXhcj9sSCwLEme6ZQ> channel. Registration: In case you are planning on attending, please fill in this form: https://uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e5to4PQWKqj98kC Location: We will host the event at the University of Amsterdam, in room F1.14. This room is in the Bushuis building at the Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam (map: link<https://www.uva.nl/locaties/binnenstad/bushuis.html?origin=IP8Iuf%20cSPCslm…>). If you have any trouble finding the room you can email m.d.homan(a)uva.nl<mailto:m.d.homan@uva.nl>. Program: 10:30 – 10:45: Introduction round 10:45 – 11:25 Markus Wagner (University of Vienna): "Coalition Signals and Affective Dislike of Radical-Right Supporters: The Effect of a Cordon Sanitaire" 11:25 – 12:05 Gijs Schumacher (University of Amsterdam): "Politics and Emotions Investigated Comparatively: Season Finale" 12:05 – 13:05: Lunch 13:05 – 13:45 Isabella Rebasso (University of Vienna): “Affective modelling of discrete emotions in politics” 13:45 – 14:25 Judit Kende (KU Leuven / Tilburg University): "Integration policies shape ethno-racial majorities’ threat reactions to increasing diversity" 14:25 – 14:40: Coffee break 14:40 – 15:20 Mortada Al-Amine (University of Groningen): "Are all inequalities unfair? Exploring Predictors of Inequality Legitimization." 15:20 – 16:00 Lee Aldar (University of Leiden): To be announced Céline Laffineur PhD Candidate Amsterdam School of Communication Research (University of Amsterdam) IP-PAD MSCA Doctoral Network member politics & adolescence | ippad<https://www.ippad.eu/> [logo hot politics]

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upcoming lab meeting
by Céline Laffineur 23 Oct '23

23 Oct '23

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, This is a reminder that there will be no meeting this Friday (October 27th) due to holidays. Next week we have our Dutch Political Psychology Meeting, which will take place Friday November 3rd from 10:30 – 16:00. Everyone is welcome to join in person at the University of Amsterdam (Roeterseiland campus). You can find the full program of this semester on our website<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/events/list/>. In the meantime, you can watch any of the previous online Hot Politics Lab meetings via the archive<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/lab-meetings-archive/>; the spotify channel<https://open.spotify.com/show/12WzTtmGBIyL4d0go6G5Hl> or the youtube<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg8cj8FXhcj9sSCwLEme6ZQ> channel. Kind regards, Céline Laffineur PhD Candidate Amsterdam School of Communication Research (University of Amsterdam) IP-PAD MSCA Doctoral Network member politics & adolescence | ippad<https://www.ippad.eu/> [logo hot politics]

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upcoming lab meeting
by Céline Laffineur 16 Oct '23

16 Oct '23

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, This Friday (October 20th) there will be a Hot Politics Lab meeting from 15:00 – 16:00. During this session, Amanda Friesen (Western Ontario University) will give a talk titled "Social Signals: What happens during face-to-face political conversations?". The talks will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) or online. For those who want to join online, note that we switched to Teams, so we will now use this link<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_N2UyYWI0NmItOTQ2OC00…>. You can find the full program of this semester on our website<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/events/list/>. In the meantime, you can watch any of the previous online Hot Politics Lab meetings via the archive<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/lab-meetings-archive/>; the spotify channel<https://open.spotify.com/show/12WzTtmGBIyL4d0go6G5Hl> or the youtube<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg8cj8FXhcj9sSCwLEme6ZQ> channel. Hope to see many of you this Friday! Kind regards, Céline Laffineur PhD Candidate Amsterdam School of Communication Research (University of Amsterdam) IP-PAD MSCA Doctoral Network member politics & adolescence | ippad<https://www.ippad.eu/> [logo hot politics]

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defense Tobias Rohrbach
by Gijs Schumacher 13 Oct '23

13 Oct '23

Dear colleagues, Next Wednesday October 18 at 16:00 exactly Tobias Rohrbach will defend his PhD dissertation entitled "Media-based Mechanisms of Gendered Evaluation of Politicians". The ceremony will take place at the Agnietenkapel. You are welcome to attend, also to the reception afterwards in the same building. These ceremonies start on time, so please if you wish to attend, be on time. Tobias has been affiliated wit the Hot Politics Lab and has frequently presented in our Graduate Friday Lab seminars. We are really looking forward to his defense. Kind regards also on behalf of the co-promotors Daphne van der Pas and Philomen Schonhagen, Dr. Gijs Schumacher Associate Professor Political Science University of Amsterdam Co-Director Hot Politics Lab<hotpolitics.eu> Co-Director Challenges to Democratic Representation<https://aissr.uva.nl/content/research-groups/challenges-to-democratic-repre…> Web: gijsschumacher.nl Twitter: @gijsschumacher [logo hot politics]

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cancelled lab meeting
by Céline Laffineur 13 Oct '23

13 Oct '23

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, Unfortunately today’s meeting is cancelled due to the speaker being ill. We hope to see you all for next week’s meeting! Have a great weekend, Céline Laffineur PhD Candidate Amsterdam School of Communication Research (University of Amsterdam) IP-PAD MSCA Doctoral Network member politics & adolescence | ippad<https://www.ippad.eu/> [logo hot politics]

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upcoming lab meeting
by Céline Laffineur 09 Oct '23

09 Oct '23

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, This Friday (October 13th) there will be a Hot Politics Lab meeting from 15:00 – 16:00. During this session, Lysanne te Brinke (Erasmus University Rotterdam) will give a talk titled "Adolescents' needs to contribute to society: opportunities, challenges, and future directions". The talks will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) or online. For those who want to join online, note that we switched to Teams, so we will now use this link<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_N2UyYWI0NmItOTQ2OC00…>. You can find the full program of this semester on our website<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/events/list/>. In the meantime, you can watch any of the previous online Hot Politics Lab meetings via the archive<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/lab-meetings-archive/>; the spotify channel<https://open.spotify.com/show/12WzTtmGBIyL4d0go6G5Hl> or the youtube<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg8cj8FXhcj9sSCwLEme6ZQ> channel. Hope to see many of you this Friday! Kind regards, Céline Laffineur PhD Candidate Amsterdam School of Communication Research (University of Amsterdam) IP-PAD MSCA Doctoral Network member politics & adolescence | ippad<https://www.ippad.eu/> [logo hot politics]

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upcoming lab meeting
by Céline Laffineur 02 Oct '23

02 Oct '23

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, This Friday (October 6th) there will be a Hot Politics Lab meeting from 15:00 – 16:00. During this session, Macarena Ares (University of Barcelona) will give a talk titled “Looking the other way? Selective information exposure and the electoral punishment of corruption”. The talks will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) or online. For those who want to join online, note that we switched to Teams, so we will now use this link<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_N2UyYWI0NmItOTQ2OC00…>. You can find the full program of this semester on our website<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/events/list/>. In the meantime, you can watch any of the previous online Hot Politics Lab meetings via the archive<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/lab-meetings-archive/>; the spotify channel<https://open.spotify.com/show/12WzTtmGBIyL4d0go6G5Hl> or the youtube<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg8cj8FXhcj9sSCwLEme6ZQ> channel. Hope to see many of you this Friday! Kind regards, Céline Laffineur PhD Candidate Amsterdam School of Communication Research (University of Amsterdam) IP-PAD MSCA Doctoral Network member politics & adolescence | ippad<https://www.ippad.eu/> [logo hot politics]

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