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14 Mar 2024 • Journal Article • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society
Evolutionary correspondence analysis of the semantic dynamics of frames
AbstractWe introduce and implement a novel dimension-reduction method for high-dimensional time-varying contingency-tables: the Evolutionary Correspondence Analysis (ECA). ECA enables a comparative analysis of high-dimensional, diachronic processes by identifying a small number of shared latent variables that shape co-evolving data patterns. ECA offers new opportunities for
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8 Mar 2024 • Journal Article • Political Psychology
Asymmetry in political polarization at multiple levels of bias
AbstractWhile some studies show ideological asymmetry in outgroup bias between rightists and leftists, those studies often target an ideologically biased outgroup. Here, we bypass this issue by targeting the ideological outgroups (rightists for leftists, and leftists for rightists). We rely on a magnetoencephalography-based approach delineating function-specific neural mechanisms
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10 Feb 2024 • Journal Article • Journal of Computational Literary Studies
Automatic Topic-Guided Segmentation of Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
AbstractIn recent decades, efforts have been made to gather and digitize the testimonies of living Holocaust survivors. The challenge we now face is attending to those thousands of human stories, which while safely stored in archives, may nevertheless disappear into oblivion. Despite recent advances in narrative analysis in the fields of Computational Literature (CL) and Natural
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Feb 2024 • Journal Article • Political Studies
Revisiting Elite Perceptions as Mediator of Elite Responsiveness to Public Opinion
AbstractElites forming a perception of what the public wants is an important way in which democratic representation comes about, the assumption holds. Yet very few are the studies that examine the effect of elite perceptions on politician action. This study sets out to revisit the matter, measuring actual public priorities, elite perceptions of public priorities and a wide
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22 Jan 2024 • Preprint • Advance
Communication in Rabenu Gershom's Ordinances
AbstractThis article proposes a common denominator among the various medieval ordinances attributed to Rabbi Gershom of Mainz (960-1028?). This organizing principle is the regulation–international public law style–of communications throughout the Jewish Diaspora. Setting clear rules with regard to travel, hosting, and supra-local social relations could encourage and promote
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10 Jan 2024 • Journal Article • Social Media+ Society
Algorithmic Ventriloquism: The Contested State of Voice in AI Speech Generators
AbstractThis article explores the vocal human–machine relations embedded in text-to-speech (TTS) generators. Retracing the human sources behind the synthetic speech and tracking the remediation of the voice by the machine-learning algorithm, it argues that artificial intelligence (AI) speaking agents such as Siri and Alexa, as well as other TTS acts such as TikTok’s, are
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2 Jan 2024 • Journal Article • Journal of Information Technology & Politics
Digital media, democracy and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe
AbstractCEE countries faced significant political, economic, social, and technological transformations over the last four decades. Democratic processes, after relative stabilization, tremble again around polarizing values, populist leaders, or nationalistic ideologies. Online communication, especially social media platforms, play a vital role in shaping how citizens interact
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Jan 2024 • Book Chapter • The COVID-19 Pandemic and Memory
#DigitalMemorial(s): How COVID-19 Reinforced Holocaust Memorials and Museums’ Shift Toward Social Media Memory
AbstractThe severe restrictions on public life following the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic affected Holocaust memorials and museums worldwide, especially in Europe, Israel, and the United States. These measures posed significant challenges to contemporary forms of Holocaust commemoration, which were based on collaborative practices of remembering, particularly related to the
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Jan 2024 • Book Chapter • The COVID-19 Pandemic and Memory
Picturing Lockdown in the UK: Memorializing an Ongoing Crisis
AbstractIn April 2020 Historic England (HE), UK’s statutory adviser on historic environment, called out to citizens to share their lockdown experiences. Positioning the Second World War as a reference point, the call-out created a parallel in the enormity of the crisis and archiving efforts. Using the Picturing Lockdown collection as a case study, we ask: how is a historical
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31 Dec 2023 • Journal Article • AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research
Climate Anxiety as a Lens into Young People’s Political Expression on YouTube
AbstractClimate anxiety—the feeling of dread and distress associated with worrying about the future of the planet—has been posited as a defining feature of Gen Z. This study examines youth communication around climate anxiety on YouTube, through a qualitative content analysis of 146 youth-created videos about climate anxiety, as well as the over 20,000 comments posted on them
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