4 papers
Double-Edged Sword of Mediated Visibility: How Visual Framing Undermines Congresswomen's Perceived Competence
Bryce J. Dietrich, Hyein Ko, Myriam Shiran
Women's presence in Congress has stalled below 30%. That institutional underrepresentation is mirrored by their limited visibility on televised news, where visual presentation can…
Inference-Time Mitigation of Adversarial Political Bias in Large Language Models
Tejaswi V. Panchagnula, Bruce Coburn, Bryce J. Dietrich +3
As Large Language Models (LLMs) become the mainstay for information retrieval and summarization tasks, ensuring that they are always non-partisan and invulnerable to political bias…
Causal Inference with Video Features as Treatments
Kentaro Nakamura, Adam Breuer, Michael H. Crespin +2
We develop the first statistical methodology for causal inference with video features as treatments. Video is the most engaging content modality on the internet. A central causal q…
Using AI to Summarize US Presidential Campaign TV Advertisement Videos, 1952-2012
Adam Breuer, Bryce J. Dietrich, Michael H. Crespin +3
This paper introduces the largest and most comprehensive dataset of US presidential campaign television advertisements, available in digital format. The dataset also includes machi…