Descrizione del progetto
Misurare e mappare la polarizzazione nelle reti sociali online
La polarizzazione nelle reti sociali online rappresenta una grave sfida per le società dell’UE, e minaccia le istituzioni democratiche. In quest’ottica, il progetto PolarScopEU, finanziato dal CER, propone un’applicazione per misurare e mappare la polarizzazione delle reti sociali online nei paesi dell’UE. Il progetto inaugurerà lo strumento in Grecia, Portogallo e Spagna, aiutando gli utenti a capire i livelli di parzialità e diversità dei contenuti politici online. Per creare questa applicazione, PolarScopEU svilupperà due prodotti aggiuntivi: uno strumento innovativo per misurare i livelli di salienza e contestazione di diverse questioni politiche e un database aggiornato periodicamente contenente i punteggi di polarizzazione e politicizzazione delle questioni. Grazie a questi prodotti sarà possibile creare un indice di polarizzazione della comunicazione politica online nei paesi dell’UE.
Obiettivo
PolarScopEU proposes an original application, tailored for the context of different EU countries, that will measure and map, in two-dimensional spaces, the polarisation of their online social networks. This tool, to be made available first in Greece, Portugal and Spain, addresses not only the impact that online political communication, and misinformation, is having nowadays on democratic institutions, but also citizens’ unawareness of existing biases in the online political information that they are exposed to. More concretely, relying on automated analyses of Social Media content to assess politicisation levels of multiple key issues, this application will allow its users to: 1) better understand how they place, in terms of the online content that they create and consume, in two major dimensions of political content: diversity and bias; and 2) find out which actors are closer to them when it comes to the politicisation of several important issues (e.g. European Integration, Immigration, Environment).
In order to create this application, the PolarScopEU will develop two additional products of extreme value for researchers and organisations to study, and monitor, online political communication. The first one is an innovative tool to measure, using alternative sources of text data, the levels of salience and contestation of different political issues. The second product is a periodically updated database, for each country, with polarisation and issue politicisation scores for an extensive list of national actors, including political parties, news media and other key opinion makers. These products will facilitate the comparison of issue politicisation across countries, time periods, and actors and originate an innovative polarisation index of online political communication in the EU countries.
Campo scientifico
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Argomento(i)
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-ERC-POC - HORIZON ERC Proof of Concept GrantsIstituzione ospitante
1600 189 Lisboa
Portogallo