Hotpoliticslab April 2023

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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 on Emotions in Climate Change Politics
by Maaike Homan 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

Dear Hot Politics Lab Followers, Just as an update, due to the school holidays, there will be no Hot Politics Lab meetings for two weeks. We will be back May 12th. You can check out the full program of this semester on our website<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/events/list/>. You can also watch any of the previous online hot politics lab meetings via the labs archive<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/lab-meetings-archive/>. Also, for those interested, Rosa Sanchez Salgado and others are organizing a workshop on Emotions in Climate Change Politics in Amsterdam in September 2023. They just launched a call for papers (deadline May 31st). The information is also available on this website: https://eufeels.com/2023/04/18/emotions-in-european-climate-politics-call-f… [https://eufeels.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/pexels-photo-2990650.jpeg?w=1200]<https://eufeels.com/2023/04/18/emotions-in-european-climate-politics-call-f…> Emotions in European climate politics, call for papers, Amsterdam, 28th-29th September 2023<https://eufeels.com/2023/04/18/emotions-in-european-climate-politics-call-f…> Political actors within and beyond Europe are grappling with the existential challenges raised by the global climate emergency. On the one hand, there has been an upsurge in climate activism epitom… eufeels.com 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 21/4
by Maaike Homan 18 Apr '23

18 Apr '23

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, This Friday (21st April) from 15:00-16:00 there will be another Hot Politics Lab. During this session, Anke Munniksma (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "Classroom Composition and Students' Average and Polarized Outgroup Attitudes". 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 check out the full program of this semester on our website<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/events/list/>. You can also watch any of the previous online hot politics lab meetings via the labs archive<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/lab-meetings-archive/>. Hope to see many of you this 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 14/4
by Maaike Homan 12 Apr '23

12 Apr '23

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, This Friday (14th April) from 15:00-16:00 there will be another Hot Politics Lab. During this session, David Amodio (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "Human sources of algorithmic bias". 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 a new link<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_N2UyYWI0NmItOTQ2OC00…>. You can check out the full program of this semester on our website<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/events/list/>. You can also watch any of the previous online hot politics lab meetings via the labs archive<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/lab-meetings-archive/>. Finally, for those interested, see the invitation for the next Dutch Political Psychology Meeting this Friday May 12th below. Everyone is welcome to join. Hope to see many of you this Friday! Best, Maaike Dear Political Psychology enthusiasts, We are happy to share with you the program for our next Dutch Political Psychology Meeting, and a small reminder that it will take place Friday May 12th from 10:30 - 16:00. Everyone is welcome to join in person at the University of Amsterdam (Roeterseiland campus). See the program and all the details below. Note that the meeting is only in person and cannot be attended online. 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 C10.20. This room is in the C building at the Roeterseiland campus. Here<https://www.uva.nl/binaries/content/assets/faculteiten/faculteit-der-maatsc…> is a map with all the buildings of the campus. 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 Daan Scheepers: Social change as challenge and threat: A social psychophysiological approach 11:25 - 12:05 Chantal D'Amore: Perceived polarization amplifies attitude moralization in response to partisan news: A four-wave longitudinal study around the 2020 US election campaign 12:05 - 13:05: Lunch 13:05 - 13:45 Leticia Micheli: In pursuit of racial equality: identifying the determinants of support for the Black Lives Matter movement 13:45 - 14:25 Frank Gootjes: Societal discontent as a catalyst for action: how a negative sentiment about society at large fuels political action 14:25 - 14:40: Coffee break 14:40 - 15:20 Flavio Azevedo: Measuring Ideology: Current practices, its consequences, and recommendations 15:20 - 16:00 Kevin Koonings: An era of conspiracies and the great reset of democracy We are looking forward to seeing you next month! Best, Maaike Homan Chantal D'Amore Bert Bakker Ruthie Pliskin 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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