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New Methods and Frameworks to Study Digital Politics
Fri, September 16, 2:00 to 3:30pm, TBASession Submission Type: Created Panel
Session Description
Digital politics is a field in constant evolution and studying it requires careful balancing between established methods and methodological innovation. This panel discusses some recent advances and original approaches to examine the changing intersection of technology, political participation, and democracy. These include topic modeling approaches to online campaigning, the combination of surveys with digital footprints, use of AI in election monitoring, and multimodal learning to measure polarization.
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Individual Presentations
Assessing Permanent Campaigning in the Online Sphere: A Topic Modelling Approach - Junyan Zhu, University of Sheffield; Kate Dommett, University of Sheffield
Assessing Survey Measures of News Exposure through Digital Footprints - Ana Sofia Cardenal, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya; Maria Victoria-Mas; Sílvia Majó-Vázquez, University of Oxford; Ivan Lacasa, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona)
MultiPolar: Multimodal Learning to Measure Polarization through Social Media - Kellin Pelrine, McGill University; Reihaneh Rabbany, McGill University; André Blais, University of Montreal; Jean-Francois Godbout, Universite de Montreal