Hotpoliticslab June 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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Hot Politics Lab 23/06
by Maaike Homan 16 Jun '23

16 Jun '23

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, Next Friday (June 23rd) there will be another Hot Politics Lab meeting from 15:00 - 16:00. This will be the last lab meeting before the summer break. During this session, Daniel Komáromy (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled Does status threat activate narcissistic traits in populist radical right support?". 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…>. The program for next the semester will be published on our website<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/events/list/> and emailed to you in advance. In the meantime, you can 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 next 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 16/6
by Maaike Homan 13 Jun '23

13 Jun '23

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, This Friday (June 16th) there will be another Hot Politics Lab meeting from 15:00 - 16:00. During this session, Toni van der Meer (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "Fighting misinformation, a remedy worse than the disease?". 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 09/06
by Maaike Homan 05 Jun '23

05 Jun '23

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, After some holidays and conferences, we are finally back with another Hot Politics Lab meeting this Friday (June 9th) from 15:00-16:00. During this session, Jeroen van der Waal (Erasmus University) will give a talk titled "Measuring non-declarative cultural capital and exploring its social situatedness: a population-based IAT-survey combination". See the abstract here below. Abstract Cultural capital is a central concept in various sociological subfields, particularly the sociology of stratification. Crucial to the Bourdieusian habitus, it is assumed to be ingrained via socialization in the upper strata, is resultingly stratified, and helps individuals to navigate educational institutions. Cultural capital is regarded as partly 'non-declarative', i.e., 'hard wired' in cognitive structures, with Bourdieu characterizing it as an aspect of so-called 'class unconsciousness'. Accordingly, the habitus has largely escaped empirical scrutiny. Arguments about its importance, therefore, are typically post-hoc interpretations of associations between the standard measure of declarative cultural capital (survey items on highbrow cultural consumption) and the particular variables of interest. We have developed a tool for empirically capturing non-declarative cultural capital: two Implicit Association Tests (IATs) measuring 1) the appreciation of elite culture and 2) self-identification with it, embedded within a survey conducted among a high-quality panel representative of the Dutch population (n=2,398). The results indicate that these IATs are valid measures of non-declarative cultural capital, and their scores are positively associated with the socio-economic positions of the respondents and their parents/caregivers. We discuss our findings' relevance to past and future research on cultural reproduction and future research on non-declarative cultural capital's corollaries. 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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