Board #42 - Discourse Online: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of French and American Political Violence

• In Event: 75-308 - Poster Session: Can Government Accountability Restore Democracy?

Brief Overview

Study analyzes 122179 social media comments on the killings of Samuel Paty and Charlie Kirk, using network analysis and LLM-based coding to compare how French and American publics interpret political violence within distinct democratic traditions.

Author

• Andrew Chang, University of California, Berkeley