Description:
Online political discussions may help to weigh arguments and shape opinions, potentially including considerations from all stakeholders. Thereby, discussion platforms may act as intelligent brokers for a fruitful exchange of opinion. In practice, resentful discussions abound and often they disparage specific groups from equal participation. In this research project, we plan to develop methods of natural language processing and network data analysis to identify such unfair treatment. Using the Reddit Politosphere dataset as a case study, we will provide specific statistical analyses and evaluation of developed methods. Based on such methods and analyses, we plan to inform discussion platforms about problems and potential means of containment.
Project Members:
- Dr. Steffen Staab, Analytic Computing, Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- Prof. Dr. Raphael Heiberger, Computational Social Science, Institute for Social Science
- Farane Jalali, Analytic Computing, Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- Sara Hanke, Institute for Social Science
Partner:
Reflecting Intelligent Systems for Diversity, Demography, and Democracy (IRIS3D)
Publications
2024
- Jalali Farahani, F., Hanke, S., Dima, C., Heiberger, R. H., & Staab, S. (2024). Who is targeted? Detecting social group mentions in online political discussions. Companion Publication of the 16th ACM Web Science Conference, 24–25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3630744.3658412