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…>
Dear Hot Politics Lab followers,
There won’t be a Hot Politics Lab meeting this Friday (May 31st). The next meeting will be June 7th with a talk from Mark van Vugt (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).
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 next 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/>
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Dear Hot Politics Lab followers,
This Friday (May 17th) there will be a Hot Politics Lab meeting from 15:00 – 16:00. During this session, Kristen Syme (Leiden University) will give a talk titled “Conflict, Power, and the Meaning of Suicide“.
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/>
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Dear Hot Politics Lab followers,
This week’s lab meeting will be tomorrow (Tuesday, May 7thth ) from 16:00 to 17:00 (not on Friday). During this session, Lasse Laustsen (University of Aarhus) will give a talk on “Interstate Conflict and Acceptance of Undemocratic Behavior from Political Candidates among Americans”.
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.
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/>
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