3 papers
cs.SI2026
Measuring Structural Political Fragmentation
Yuan Zhang, Laia Castro, Frank Esser +1
Political fragmentation denotes the differentiation of a political system into multiple groups and the extent of separation among them. It often manifests structurally in online in…
cs.CL2025
Beyond the Link: Assessing LLMs' ability to Classify Political Content across Global Media
Alejandro De La Fuente-Cuesta, Alberto Martinez-Serra, Nienke Visscher +2
The use of large language models (LLMs) is becoming common in political science and digital media research. While LLMs have demonstrated ability in labelling tasks, their effective…
cs.SI2025
Quantifying the Spread of Online Incivility in Brazilian Politics
Yuan Zhang, Michael Amsler, Laia Castro Herrero +2
Incivility refers to behaviors that violate collective norms and disrupt cooperation within the political process. Although large-scale online data and automated techniques have en…