Papers by Jesse Shapiro
Analyzing Polarization in Social Media: Method and Application to Tweets on 21 Mass Shootings (N19-1)
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| Challenge: | a new framework for studying political polarization in social media is needed to understand how group divisions manifest in language. |
| Approach: | They propose to cluster tweet embeddings to uncover four dimensions of political polarization in social media . their results apply existing lexical methods to analyze 4.4M tweets on 21 mass shootings . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework generates more cohesive topics than traditional models. |