Conferences
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.
On 16 and 17 November 2023, the Universidad Católica del Norte in Antofagasta hosted the IX Annual Congress of the Chilean Scientific Society of Psychology (SCP), a meeting that brought together leading researchers and scientists to share their findings and discuss the latest advances in the field of psychology. In this context, our research associate Jaquelin Morillo obtained an honourable mention in the “Thesis in 5 minutes” competition with her work entitled “Exploring Factors Affecting Lie Quality: Morphological, Psychological, Behavioral, and Physiological Perspectives”.
Last October, our research associate Bastián González-Bustamante had the honour of presenting his paper entitled “New Data Sources and Signals on Presidential Approval: Daily Indicator Based on Google Trends” at the BigSurv23 conference, held on 26-29 October in Quito, Ecuador. This important international meeting brought together experts in data and social sciences to share ideas and experiences on producing socially relevant statistics.
Our research associate, Bastián González-Bustamante, had the honour of presenting his research at the general conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) in Prague, Czech Republic. This important annual meeting brought together experts and practitioners in political science and related disciplines to discuss the latest advances and findings in the field.
