4 papers
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…
Researchers waste 80% of LLM annotation costs by classifying one text at a time
Christian Pipal, Eva-Maria Vogel, Morgan Wack +1
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used for text classification across the social sciences, yet researchers overwhelmingly classify one text per variable per promp…
A multilevel network approach to revealing patterns of online political selective exposure
Yuan Zhang, Laia Castro Herrero, Frank Esser +1
Selective exposure, individuals' inclination to seek out information that supports their beliefs while avoiding information that contradicts them, plays an important role in the em…
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…