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Improving hate speech detection with large language models - cup.org/3YYVnKy

- @nataliaumansky.bsky.social, @maelkubli.bsky.social, Kotarcic, Bronner, Kurer, Grech, Hangartner, Gilardi & @karstendonnay.bsky.social

#FirstView #LLM

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The distribution of hate speech and its implications for content moderation - https://cup.org/4sgFqNl

- Gennaro, Bronner, Derksen, @maelkubli.bsky.social, Kotarcic, Kurer, Grech, @karstendonnay.bsky.social, @fgilardi.bsky.social & Hangartner

#FirstView

I’m incredibly grateful for all the academic, social, and emotional support I received on this journey from everyone at @ipz.bsky.social. Thank you for being part of this adventure!

I want to thank my committee: @fgilardi.bsky.social, @karstendonnay.bsky.social, and @stefanmueller.bsky.social as well as the chair, Prof. Dr. Daniel Kübler, and minute-taker @emmahoes.bsky.social. Your guidance and support made this possible!

After 4½ years, I’m thrilled to announce that I have successfully defended my PhD dissertation titled “Framing Artificial Intelligence: Understanding How AI Is Framed in EU Political and Media Discourse Using Large Language Models.” PhDone! 🎓

✨ New LLM paper ✨

> Open-source LLMs perform well in text annotation tasks
> Fine-tuned open-source LLMs outperform zero-shot GPT-4
> Fine-tuning beats few-shot training with modest amount of annotated data

w/ @malizadeh.bsky.social @maelkubli.bsky.social et al.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 New publication alert in PSRM! 🚨

Our latest paper examines gender bias in media coverage of elections and the factors influencing it.

Read more: doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

With @fgilardi.bsky.social y.social & @gessler.bsky.social

suggested criteria for the responsible use of LLMs in academic work

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Comparing methods for creating a national random sample of twitter users - Social Network Analysis and Mining Twitter data has been widely used by researchers across various social and computer science disciplines. A common aim when working with Twitter data is the construction of a random sample of users fro...

We are thrilled to share our new publication in Social Network Analysis and Mining! 🚀

We compare methods for creating a national random sample of Twitter/X users for digital research and social media analysis.

Explore the findings here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How Negative Media Coverage Impacts Platform Governance: Evidence from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Social media companies wield considerable power over what people can say and do online, with consequences for freedom of expression and participation in digital culture. Yet we still know little ab...

"We find that sustained negative coverage significantly predicts changes to platforms’ user policies, highlighting the role of public pressure in shaping the governance of online platforms."

by @emmahoes.bsky.social @klueserthan.bsky.social @maelkubli.bsky.social @malizadeh.bsky.social et al.

✨ Call for papers ✨

Digital Democracy Workshop
University of Zurich, 24-25 October 2024
Submission deadline: 2 June 2024

Pls share widely!

democracy.dsi.uzh.ch/news/24-25-1...

UZH: Three-Year Post-Doctoral Research Position in the Research Group of Professor Fabrizio Gilardi The Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich (http://www.ipz.uzh.ch) invites applications for a post-doctoral research position in the research group of Professor Fabrizio Gilardi (...

I'm hiring a postdoc!

> Aug 2024 - July 2027
> PhD completed or close to completion
> Interest in digital technology & politics
> Causal inference and/or computational social science
> Salary: CHF 81,400/yr

Pls help me spread the word!

jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

I'll talk about co-authored work with @fgilardi.bsky.social and @maelkubli.bsky.social in Mannheim today on how advocacy campaigns influence gender bias in election coverage.

Looking to see some familiar faces, whether online or in person. 👋

happening next week: our 2023 Digital Democracy Workshop

if you happen to be in Zurich, please register here: digdemlab.io/forms/regist...

should be a good one :)

Repost if you’ve participated in a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. Let’s get #SICSS Bluesky going!