Project Focus
Online political discussions may help to weigh arguments and shape opinions potentially including considerations from all stakeholders. Thereby, discussion platforms may act as intelligent brokers for a fruitful exchange of opinion. In practice, resentful discussions abound and often they disparage specific groups from equal participation. In this research project, we plan to develop methods of natural language processing and network data analysis to identify
such unfair treatment. Using the Reddit Politosphere dataset as a case study, we will provide specific statistical analyses and evaluation of developed methods. Based on such methods and analyses, we plan to inform discussion platforms about problems and potential means of containment.
Project Members
- Jun.-Prof. Dr. Raphael Heiberger, Computational Social Science, Institute for Social Science
- Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab, Analytic Computing, Institute for Parallel and Distributed Computing (IPVS) | Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- Sara Hanke, Institute for Social Science
- Farane Jalali, Institute for Parallel and Distributed Computing (IPVS)
Duration
04/2022 - 11/2024
Funding
The project is funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Wuerttemberg: Az. 33-7533-9-19/54/6