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In the framework of the Digital Democracy Workshop 2024, held at the University of Zurich, two associate researchers from the Training Data Lab, Bastián González-Bustamante and Sebastián Rivera, presented a relevant study on digital incivility in political deliberation. In their paper entitled, “Toxicity and Digital Incivility during Political Deliberation: The Case of the Constitutional Convention in Chile”, these researchers explore the magnitude and determinants of non-civil comments directed towards politicians, focusing on the Chilean context.
In a world where social media is increasingly ubiquitous, the ability to identify and understand online toxicity and incivility is crucial for democracy and civil society. In this sense, the project “Large Language Models (LLMs) to Identify Toxicity in the Digital Sphere during Protest Events in Latin America” seeks to develop technologies to detect and analyse toxicity in social networks during protest events in Latin America.
Between 15 and 17 May, our researchers Bastián González-Bustamante and Carla Cisternas, in collaboration with Ximena Orchard, presented a paper entitled “Amplification, contestation, and hostile engagement with news in social media” at the conference Medios de Gobernanza en América Latina, España y Portugal, held in Valencia and also online.
At the COMPTEXT 2024 conference, which took place from 2 to 4 May at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, our research associate Bastián González-Bustamante presented two innovative papers related to a project funded by the Dutch Research Council.
