Analyzing Polarization in Social Media: Method and Application to Tweets on 21 Mass Shootings

Demszky, Dorottya; Garg, Nikhil; Voigt, Rob; Zou, James; Shapiro, Jesse M.; Gentzkow, Matthew; Jurafsky, Dan

doi:10.18653/v1/n19-1304

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“…5 Third, school shootings appear to (sometimes) spark forms of non-electoral civic behavior that may simultaneously promote electoral behavior. Increased protests that resulted after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in early 2018, along with evidence from increases in online discussions that follow school shootings (Demszky et al 2019), suggests these events may activate the knowledge, skills, and behaviors likely to promote voting.…”

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Mobilize for Our Lives? School Shootings and Democratic Accountability in U.S. Elections

Hassell¹,

Holbein

Baldwin

2020

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Gun violence is a large and growing problem in the United States. Many reformers look towards elections to spur policy change in this area. In this paper, we explore the effects of school shootings on electoral mobilization and election outcomes. We pair data from several sources that measure validated voter registration; validated voter turnout; and the electoral performance of officials at the local, state, and federal levels with regression discontinuity and panel methods. Our effects show that shootings have little to no effect on electoral outcomes in the United States. Our work demonstrates that even when tragic events occur that are squarely in the realm of elected officials’ responsibility, have high levels of issue salience, are highly-covered by the media, draw citizens’ attention, and (perhaps) shift public opinion, these seemingly favorable conditions may not be enough to elicit democratic accountability.

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Mobilize for Our Lives? School Shootings and Democratic Accountability in U.S. Elections

Hassell¹,

Holbein

Baldwin

2020

Am Polit Sci Rev

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“…Topic choice has been commonly used in NLP (Tsur et al, 2015;Field et al, 2018;Demszky et al, 2019) as a proxy for agenda-setting, the strategic highlighting of what aspects of a subject are worth discussing (McCombs, 2002). Here, we first describe our preliminary topic analysis for discovering the range of topics discussed.…”

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The Discourse of Online Content Moderation: Investigating Polarized User Responses to Changes in Reddit’s Quarantine Policy

Shen¹,

Rosé²

2019

Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Abusive Language Online

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Recent concerns over abusive behavior on their platforms have pressured social media companies to strengthen their content moderation policies. However, user opinions on these policies have been relatively understudied. In this paper, we present an analysis of user responses to a September 27, 2018 announcement about the quarantine policy on Reddit as a case study of to what extent the discourse on content moderation is polarized by users' ideological viewpoint. We introduce a novel partitioning approach for characterizing user polarization based on their distribution of participation across interest subreddits. We then use automated techniques for capturing framing to examine how users with different viewpoints discuss moderation issues, finding that right-leaning users invoked censorship while left-leaning users highlighted inconsistencies on how content policies are applied. Overall, we argue for a more nuanced approach to moderation by highlighting the intersection of behavior and ideology in considering how abusive language is defined and regulated.

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“…The NLP techniques depend on an existing corpus that can represent a language [8]. Such techniques have been used in various disciplines such as [6] in Political Science and [7] in mental health realm.…”

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<strong>Characterizing Female Workplace Bullying via Social Media</strong>

Ahmed¹,

Ae²,

Sarirete³

et al. 2020

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Motivated by the #Metoo movement, we explore in this paper people’s perception of female bullying at workplace. We looked at #workplacebullying and found that 1) people were split between identifying the prevalence of workplace bullying against female and the view that such bullying simply does not exist and is a nuisance, 2) The tweets also showed the existence of psychological effects of cyberbullying, and 3) the tweets showed many intervention techniques that can minimize the effects of such bullying. We further explored the top three recurring hashtags mentioned under the #workplacebullying and found that the three top hashtags were #sexism, #feminism and #equality. Our results showed that the above hashtags represent the positive and negative approach to workplace bullying i.e. #feminism hashtag was mostly used by people who denied that workplace bullying against females exist while # sexism was mentioned as the prime cause by people who agree that such bullying exist. #equality overwhelmingly comprises of techniques to minimize workplace bullying against females.

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Analyzing Polarization in Social Media: Method and Application to Tweets on 21 Mass Shootings

Cited by 125 publications

References 50 publications

Mobilize for Our Lives? School Shootings and Democratic Accountability in U.S. Elections

Mobilize for Our Lives? School Shootings and Democratic Accountability in U.S. Elections

The Discourse of Online Content Moderation: Investigating Polarized User Responses to Changes in Reddit’s Quarantine Policy

<strong>Characterizing Female Workplace Bullying via Social Media</strong>

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