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Fear and Loathing on the Frontline: Decoding the Language of Othering by Russia-Ukraine War Bloggers
Patrick Gerard, William Theisen, Tim Weninger +1
Othering, the act of portraying outgroups as fundamentally different from the ingroup, often escalates into framing them as existential threats--fueling intergroup conflict and jus…
N-Modal Contrastive Losses with Applications to Social Media Data in Trimodal Space
William Theisen, Walter Scheirer
The social media landscape of conflict dynamics has grown increasingly multi-modal. Recent advancements in model architectures such as CLIP have enabled researchers to begin studyi…
An Avalanche of Images on Telegram Preceded Russia's Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
William Theisen, Michael Yankoski, Kristina Hook +3
Governments use propaganda, including through visual content -- or Politically Salient Image Patterns (PSIP) -- on social media, to influence and manipulate public opinion. In the…
C-CLIP: Contrastive Image-Text Encoders to Close the Descriptive-Commentative Gap
William Theisen, Walter Scheirer
The interplay between the image and comment on a social media post is one of high importance for understanding its overall message. Recent strides in multimodal embedding models, n…