Project description DEENESFRITPL 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. Show the project objective Hide the project objective 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. Fields of science social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical communicationsocial sciencesmedia and communicationsjournalismsocial scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssocial sciencessociologyindustrial relationsautomationnatural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsgame theory Keywords cultural conflict opinion dynamics game theory geopolitics media studies spatial analysis Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.2. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Main Programme H2020-EU.1.2.2. - FET Proactive Topic(s) FETPROACT-01-2016 - FET Proactive: emerging themes and communities Call for proposal H2020-FETPROACT-2016-2017 See other projects for this call Sub call FETPROACT-2016 Funding Scheme RIA - Research and Innovation action Coordinator MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV Net EU contribution € 908 625,00 Address Hofgartenstrasse 8 80539 Munchen Germany See on map Region Bayern Oberbayern München, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 908 625,00 Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA Italy Net EU contribution € 805 562,50 Address Dorsoduro 3246 30123 Venezia See on map Region Nord-Est Veneto Venezia Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 843 062,50 Third-party Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure. FONDAZIONE UNIVERSITA CA FOSCARI VENEZIA Italy Net EU contribution € 37 500,00 Address Dorsoduro 3246 30123 Venezia See on map Region Nord-Est Veneto Venezia Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 37 500,00 CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOGSKOLA AB Sweden Net EU contribution € 640 356,25 Address - 412 96 Goteborg See on map Region Södra Sverige Västsverige Västra Götalands län Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 640 356,25 SORBONNE UNIVERSITE France Net EU contribution € 312 510,00 Address 21 rue de l'ecole de medecine 75006 Paris See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 468 760,00 Third-party Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure. CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS France Net EU contribution € 156 250,00 Address Rue michel ange 3 75794 Paris See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 156 250,00 UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE France Net EU contribution € 489 350,00 Address 85 bd saint germain 75006 Paris See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 489 350,00 VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL Belgium Net EU contribution € 748 375,00 Address Pleinlaan 2 1050 Bruxelles / brussel See on map Region Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/ Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. Brussel-Hoofdstad Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 748 375,00 UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM Netherlands Net EU contribution € 1 384 997,50 Address Spui 21 1012WX Amsterdam See on map Region West-Nederland Noord-Holland Groot-Amsterdam Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 1 384 997,50 UNIVERSITAET LEIPZIG Germany Net EU contribution € 333 750,00 Address Ritterstrasse 26 04109 Leipzig See on map Region Sachsen Leipzig Leipzig Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 333 750,00