You Can't Stop It If You Can't See It: Introducing a New Scalable System to Measure Populist Narratives at Higher Resolution

• In Event: Text as Data Applications

Brief Overview

We offer a new system to identify which specific sentences and paragraphs in political text carrying populist narratives. We parse ``us'' versus ``them'' frames, as well as who is determined by the speaker as protecting or threatening ``the people''.

Authors

• Valentina Gonzalez-Rostani, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus

• Bree Bang-Jensen, University of Washington

• Michael Colaresi, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus