Social media data has become crucial to the advancement of scientific understanding.
However, even though it has become ubiquitous, just collecting large-scale social media …

Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: digital media have provided political actors and
citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools are now routinely used by activists …

Online communities about similar topics may maintain very different norms of interaction.
Past research identifies many processes that contribute to maintaining stable norms …

Using the frequency of keywords is a classic approach in the formal analysis of text, but has
the drawback of glossing over the relationality of word meanings. Word embedding models …

Abstract On June 24, 2018, Turkey conducted a highly consequential election in which the
Turkish people elected their president and parliament in the first election under a new …

In this paper we suggest a minimally-supervised approach for identifying nuanced frames in
news article coverage of politically divisive topics. We suggest to break the broad policy …

Previous research has documented the existence of both online echo chambers and hostile
intergroup interactions. In this paper, we explore the relationship between these two …

Research on online political communication has primarily focused on content in explicitly
political spaces. In this work, we set out to determine the amount of political talk missed …

We present the first large-scale measurement study of cross-partisan discussions between
liberals and conservatives on YouTube, based on a dataset of 274,241 political videos from …

The intensification of affective polarization worldwide has raised new questions about how
social media platforms might be further fracturing an already-divided public sphere. As …