January 2024 - 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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MEXCA Release
by Gijs Schumacher 30 Jan '24

30 Jan '24

Dear all, I am happy to announce the first release of MEXCA (v1.0.0). Developed together with the eScience Center, MEXCA is a tool for Multimodal Emotional eXpression Capture (with the final A for Amsterdam). You can feed MEXCA a video of for example an election debate. MEXCA identifies who speaks and who is shown in the video. Moreover it binds together state-of-the-art open-source tools to extract facial expressions, vocal characteristics and language tone from the video. Indeed, its strength is the combination of different existing pipelines. This dramatically reduces the time, costs and complexity of multimodal emotional analyses. You can try out MEXCA here: https://github.com/mexca/mexca. You can read our preprint on MEXCA here: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/56svb We are also organizing a short workshop on February 14 (from 9:00 - 13:00 CET). In this workshop we will explain the tool and would like to discuss follow-up steps with participants. Also, we will ask several people who work on emotional expression in politics to present their work. The location is REC B9.22 (the Common Room). You can participate online too. Please send me an email if you want to participate in the workshop. Also feel free to forward this invitation to people you think may be interested. We would love to hear what you think. 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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next lab meeting
by Céline Laffineur 29 Jan '24

29 Jan '24

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, This Friday (February 2nd) marks the start of our Graduate Friday series. As per usual, the Hot Politics Lab meeting will be held from 15:00 – 16:00. · Nikki Dekker will hold a talk on “Youth Unveiled: The Dynamics of Attitude Polarization on Democratic and Social Issues” · Dan Komaromy will talk about “Radical Activation: Competitive Norms and the Rise of the Populist Radical Right” Everybody is welcome to join in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) or online. Those who want to join online can use this link<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_N2UyYWI0NmItOTQ2OC00…>. In the meantime, you can watch any of the previous Hot Politics Lab meetings via the youtube<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg8cj8FXhcj9sSCwLEme6ZQ> channel. Hope to see many of you this Friday! Kind regards, Céline Laffineur PhD Researcher 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 labmeeting
by Céline Laffineur 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, This Friday (January 26th) there will be a Hot Politics Lab meeting from 15:00 – 16:00. During this session, Evelyne Crone (Erasmus University) will give a talk titled "Self and others in adolescence: Insights from brain imaging ". The talk will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) or online. Those who want to join online can use this link<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_N2UyYWI0NmItOTQ2OC00…>. Hope to see many of you this Friday! Kind regards, Céline Laffineur PhD Researcher 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 labmeeting
by Céline Laffineur 15 Jan '24

15 Jan '24

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, This Friday (January 19th) there will be a Hot Politics Lab meeting from 15:00 – 16:00. During this session, Lysanne te Brinke (Erasmus University) will give a talk titled "Adolescents’ needs to contribute to society: opportunities, challenges, and future directions". The talk will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) or online. Those who want to join online can use this link<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_N2UyYWI0NmItOTQ2OC00…>. In the meantime, you can watch any of the previous Hot Politics Lab meetings via the youtube<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg8cj8FXhcj9sSCwLEme6ZQ> channel. Hope to see many of you this Friday! Kind regards, Céline Laffineur PhD Researcher 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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Hot Politics Lab New Year's Reception
by Linda Bomm 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, As some of you may know, we are hosting a new year's reception for the Hot Politics Lab this Friday, 12.01., at 16:30, in the common room of Political Science (REC-B9.22, the same location as the HPL meeting). We invite you to join us in welcoming the new year and the exciting research that lies ahead. We will be offering (non-)alcoholic drinks and vegetarian and vegan bites - whether you prefer to toast to the new year with sparkling wine or adhere to your "Dry January" or "Veganuary" plans, we have something for everyone. 🙂 We are happy to consider any additional dietary restrictions you indicate to us. If you have not already accepted an invitation to the reception, please let us know whether you would like to attend by replying to this email by Thursday, 11.01. Hope to see you on Friday at the HPL meeting and the reception! All the best, Linda Linda Bomm PhD Candidate Amsterdam School of Communication Research (University of Amsterdam) [logo hot politics]

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postdoc position
by Gijs Schumacher 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

Dear Hot Politics Lab Followers & Friends, Please note that - as part of a larger project - we are recruiting a postdoc. Here's the link to the vacancy: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Post-doc-Position-on-Emotions-in-Climate-C… Among other things you will get to work with our new software MEXCA. 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 labmeeting
by Céline Laffineur 08 Jan '24

08 Jan '24

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, This Friday (January 12th) there will be a Hot Politics Lab meeting from 15:00 – 16:00. During this session, Josh Pasek (University of Michigan) will give a talk titled “Information & Identity: How individuals adopt biased political attitudes". The talk will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) or online. Those who want to join online can use this link<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_N2UyYWI0NmItOTQ2OC00…>. In the meantime, you can watch any of the previous Hot Politics Lab meetings via 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] Céline Laffineur PhD Researcher 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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