Ethos and Pathos in Online Group Discussions: Corpora for Polarisation Issues in Social Media

arXiv:2404.04889v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Growing polarisation in society caught the attention of the scientific community as well as news media, which devote special issues to this phenomenon. At the same time, digitalisation of social interactions requires to revise concepts from social science regarding establishment of trust, which is a key feature of all human interactions, and group polarisation, as well as new computational tools to process large quantities of available data. Existing methods seem insufficient to tackle the problem …

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