Hotpoliticslab September 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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upcoming lab meeting
by Céline Laffineur 25 Sep '23

25 Sep '23

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, This Friday (September 29th) there will be a Hot Politics Lab meeting from 15:00 – 16:00. During this session, Tobia Spampatti (University of Geneva) will give a talk titled “Psychological inoculation strategies to fight climate disinformation across 12 countries.”. 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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by Gijs Schumacher 22 Sep '23

22 Sep '23

Dear all Please note that Chris Bail's talk will be in a different room than announced earlier. We are meeting in REC B3.01. Kind regards, 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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upcoming lab meeting
by Céline Laffineur 18 Sep '23

18 Sep '23

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, This Friday (September 22nd) there will be a Hot Politics Lab meeting from 15:00 – 16:00. During this session, Chris Bail (Duke University) will give a talk titled “Can Generative AI Improve Social Science?”. 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/>. 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 Gijs Schumacher 12 Sep '23

12 Sep '23

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, Next Friday (15th of September) we will kick off the Hot Politics Lab year, starting at 15:00 - 16:00. During this session, Honorata Mazepus (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "Legitimizing and constraining political authorities" 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 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/>; the spotify channel<https://open.spotify.com/show/12WzTtmGBIyL4d0go6G5Hl> or the youtube<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg8cj8FXhcj9sSCwLEme6ZQ> channel. Overview of this semester's talks. 15-9 Honorata Mazepus (UvA) - "Legitimizing and constraining political authorities" 22-9 Chris Bail (Princeton University) - "to be announced". 29-9 Tobia Spampatti (University of Geneva) - "Psychological inoculation strategies to fight climate disinformation across 12 countries" 6-10 Macarena Ares (University of Barcelona) "Looking the other way? Selective information exposure and the electoral punishment of corruption" 13-10 Lysanne te Brinke (Erasmus University) "Adolescents' needs to contribute to society: opportunities, challenges, and future directions" 20-10 Amanda Friesen (Western Ontario University) - Social Signals: What happens during face-to-face political conversations? 27-10 no meeting due to holiday 3-11 Dutch Political Psychology meeting from 10.30 - 16.00. Speakers: Markus Wagner (University of Vienna), Judith Kende (KU Leuven / Tilburg University), Gijs Schumacher (University of Amsterdam), and Mortada Al-Amine (University of Groningen). 10-11 Vin Arceneaux (Sciences Po) - "Is political ignorance bliss? The social and political effects of Facebook" 17-11 Markus Wagner (U of Vienna) ;- Partisan Prejudice in Europe 24-11 Hot Politics Lab live from the IP-PAD project in Vienna 1-12 Gijs Schumacher (University of Amsterdam); MEXCA: Multimodal Emotional Expression Analysis 8-12 Stefanie Reher (University of Stratclyde) Framing Disability: Voter Evaluations of Candidate Self-Presentations in Election Campaigns" 15-12 Half day symposium as part of Honorata Mazepus' NWO XS project: Political intuitions: interdisciplinary exchange Hope to see many of you next Friday! Kind regards, Dr. Gijs Schumacher Associate Professor Political Science University of Amsterdam Co-Director Hot Politics Lab<http://hotpolitics.eu/> Co-Director Challenges to Democratic Representation<https://aissr.uva.nl/content/research-groups/challenges-to-democratic-repre…> Web: gijsschumacher.nl<http://gijsschumacher.nl/> Twitter: @gijsschumacher [logo hot politics]

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