Project description
How social media impact political polarisation
Communication is influenced by social media, the digitisation of news, and discussion fora. With this in mind, the EU-funded ODYCCEUS project will explore the conceptual foundations, methodologies, and tools to comprehend the impact of these forms of communication. It will create tools to interpret digital media discourse, with the goal of understanding how opinions are shaped and disseminated on divisive topics such as political polarisation and online extremism. Utilising extensions of game theory, ODYCCEUS will also develop an open modular platform called Penelope, which will be available as an open-source community resource. Additionally, the project will construct two innovative participatory tools (Opinion Observatory and the Opinion Facilitator) empowering citizens to monitor, visualise, and actively influence the dynamics of conflict situations.
Objective
Social media and the digitization of news and discussion fora are having far-reaching effects on the way individuals and communities communicate, organize, and express themselves. Can the information circulating on these platforms be tapped to better understand and analyze the enormous problems facing our contemporary society? Could this help us to better monitor the growing number of social crises due to cultural differences and diverging world-views? Would this facilitate early detection and perhaps even ways to resolve conflicts before they lead to violence? The Odycceus project answers all these questions affirmatively. It will develop the conceptual foundations, methodologies, and tools to translate this bold vision into reality and demonstrate its power in a large number of cases.
Specifically, the project seeks conceptual breakthroughs in Global Systems Science, including a fine-grained representation of cultural conflicts based on conceptual spaces and sophisticated text analysis, extensions of game theory to handle games with both divergent interests and divergent mindsets, and new models of alignment and polarization dynamics. The project will also develop an open modular platform, called Penelope, that integrates tools for the complete pipeline, from data scraped from social media and digital sources, to visualization of the analyses and models developed by the project. The platform features an infrastructure allowing developers to provide new plug-ins for additional steps in the pipeline, share them with others, and jointly develop the platform as an open source community. Finally, the project will build two innovative participatory tools, the Opinion Observatory and the Opinion Facilitator, which allow citizens to monitor, visualize and influence the dynamics of conflict situations that involve heterogeneous cultural biases and non-transparent entanglements of multilateral interests.
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- social sciences political sciences political communication
- social sciences media and communications journalism
- social sciences economics and business economics
- social sciences sociology industrial relations automation
- natural sciences mathematics applied mathematics game theory
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H2020-EU.1.2. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
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RIA - Research and Innovation action
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(opens in new window) H2020-FETPROACT-2016-2017
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80539 Munchen
Germany
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