Descrizione del progetto
L’impatto dei social media sulla polarizzazione politica
La comunicazione è influenzata dai social media, dalla digitalizzazione delle notizie e dai forum di discussione. In quest’ottica, il progetto ODYCCEUS, finanziato dall’UE, esplorerà le basi concettuali, le metodologie e gli strumenti per comprendere l’impatto di queste forme di comunicazione. Creerà strumenti per interpretare il discorso dei media digitali, con l’obiettivo di capire come vengono formate e diffuse le opinioni su argomenti divisivi come la polarizzazione politica e l’estremismo online. Utilizzando estensioni della teoria dei giochi, ODYCCEUS svilupperà anche una piattaforma modulare aperta chiamata Penelope, che sarà disponibile come risorsa comunitaria open-source. Inoltre, il progetto costruirà due strumenti partecipativi innovativi (l’Osservatorio delle opinioni e il Facilitatore di opinioni) che consentiranno ai cittadini di monitorare, visualizzare e influenzare attivamente le dinamiche delle situazioni di conflitto.
Obiettivo
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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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
80539 Munchen
Germania