Papers with polarization
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. |
Investigating Controversy Framing across Topics on Social Media (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | a novel method for discovering framings of controversial problems is proposed . framers of controversial issues can be explored across topics, the paper argues . |
| Approach: | This paper proposes a method for discovering and articulating framing of controversial problems . framers offer valuable insights into how and why controversial problems are discussed online . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method enables the investigation of how controversy is framed across topics. |
A Multi-Labeled Dataset for Indonesian Discourse: Examining Toxicity, Polarization, and Demographics Information (2025.findings-acl)
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Lucky Susanto, Musa Izzanardi Wijanarko, Prasetia Anugrah Pratama, Zilu Tang, Fariz Akyas, Traci Hong, Ika Karlina Idris, Alham Fikri Aji, Derry Tanti Wijaya
| Challenge: | Prior research has focused on toxicity and polarization as separate problems . extreme polarizing deepens divisions, often leading to hostility and fragmentation . |
| Approach: | They propose to use a multi-label Indonesian dataset annotated for toxicity, polarization, and annotator demographic information to study polarizing language and toxicity. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset shows that polarization cues improve toxicity classification and vice versa. |