CoSy zoom seminar
- Date: 20 April 2021, 12:15–13:00
- Location: Zoom
- Type: Seminar
- Lecturer: Raazesh Sainudiin
- Contact person: Benjamin Meco
Empirical Ideological Processes: Insights from Ideological Forests into the Polarised State of the Swedish, British and American Political Twitterverses around their respective National Elections.
Abstract: I will spend the first 20-30 minutes on Characterizing the Twitter Networks of Prominent Politicians and SPLC-defined Hate Groups in the 2016 US Presidential Election, Social Network Analysis and Mining, 9:34, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-019-0567-9. Then I will overview a preliminary analysis of over 91 million tweets collected during an 8-month period around the Swedish general election in 2018. This analysis showed strong evidence of highly polarised communities. These communities were found to differ politically and in their nearly mutually exclusive use of hashtags, links to URLs and preference for news sources. This preliminary study of the Swedish Twitterverse in conjunction with statistical tests is indicative of highly polarised echo-chambers across the left and right political spectra. http://lamastex.org/preprints/20190830_PolarisedMEPSverige.pdf
From these insightful examples, depending on the audience, we can discuss current VR-funded mathematical theological research, jointly with Simon Lindgren (Professor of Digital Sociology, UmU) and mattias Gardell (Professor of Theology, UU), with a focus on statistical models of empirical interacting ideological processes in current social media communications. The decision-theoretic view is completely scalable to arbitrarily large datasets. My main objective with the seminar is to inspire NLP/ML/AI and other data engineering science researchers to exploit the unique dataset on the Swedish political twitterverse and brainstorm pathways for future collaborations.