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07/06/2021 09/06/2021

ODYCCEUS Online Conference - The Computational Analysis of Cultural Conflict

People around the world are increasingly experiencing the world mediated through digital interfaces. Concerns have been raised on the implications of this development, in particular linking the increasing levels of polarization, cultural conflicts, and fragmentation to the growth of this digital realm.

During the last four years, a network of researchers from different fields has worked towards a better understanding of these developments within the European project ODYCCEUS (Opinion DYnamics and Cultural Conflict in European Spaces, www.odycceus.eu). The broad aim of Odycceus has been to develop concepts, methods and software that enables theoretically-grounded empirical analysis of textual data on political opinions and their dynamics. In this final conference latest results of the project are presented with a particular focus on specific case studies.

Program

10:00 - 10:15
10:15 - 11:15 Massimo Warglien (Università Ca' Foscari, Italy)
Games and Conceptual Spaces
10:15 - 12:15
11:15 - 12:15 Eckehard Olbrich (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany)
Political Spaces as Conceptual Spaces
12:15 - 14:00
14:00 - 15:00 Simon Levis Sullam (Università Ca' Foscari, Italy), Giorgia Minello, Rocco Tripodi
Tracing Discourse on Jews in the French Long 19th Century: a Distant Reading.
14:00 - 17:00
15:00 - 16:00 Stijn Peeters (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Marc Tuters, Tom Willaert (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Daniel de Zeeuw, and Sal Hagen
On the Vernacular Language Games of an Antagonistic Online Subculture
16:00 - 17:00 Richard Rogers (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Armin Pournaki (MPI MiS)
Where is the urgency in the climate change discourse?
10:00 - 11:00 Sven Banisch (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany)
Social Feedback Theory: Modeling collective opinion phenomena by learning from the feedback of others
10:00 - 12:00
11:00 - 12:00 Marcel Sarközi (Leipzig University, Germany)
The Effects of Social Feedback on Private Opinions. Empirical Evidence from the Laboratory
12:00 - 14:00
13:55 - 16:00
14:00 - 15:00 Romain Leconte (Université de Paris, France), Etienne Toureille and Claude Grasland (Université de Paris, France), joined work with Marta Severo (Université de Paris Nanterre, France)
A Multidimensional Analysis of Geopolitical Agenda. Border and Migrant Crisis in the Western European Press (2014 - 2018)
15:00 - 16:00 Felix Gaisbauer (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany)
Public Debate on Twitter: Counterpublics and Ideological Differences
10:00 - 11:00 Pedro Ramaciotti Morales (SciencesPo, Paris, France)
Embedding Informational Ecosystems in Ideological Spaces and Tracking Group Dynamics
10:00 - 12:00
11:00 - 12:00 Livia van Vliet (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
The Moral Messages of Brexit: Analysis of Politician Tweets Following the Referendum Vote of 2016
12:00 - 14:00
14:00 - 15:00 Tom Willaert (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
An Opinion Facilitator for Online News Media
14:00 - 17:00
15:00 - 16:00 Philipp Lorenz-Spreen (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany)
Behavioural science to empower truth and democratic discourse online
16:00 - 17:00 Petter Törnberg (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Justus Uitermark
Impacts of New Social Media
20:00 - 22:00
Panel discussion:
Julia Ebner (University of Oxford, United Kingdom), Andreas Jungherr (Universität Bamberg, Germany), Philipp Lorenz-Spreen (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany)
Social Media: Democratization or Radicalization Engine?

Participants

Yasaman Asgari

Sharif university of Technology, Iran

Sven Banisch

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany

Marco Bastos

University College Dublin, Ireland

Roger Berger

University of Leipzig, Germany

Georg Börner

TU Dresden, Germany

Natasa Conrad

Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany

Julia Ebner

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Felix Gaisbauer

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany

Peter Gärdenfors

Lund University, Sweden

Zahra Ghadiri

Sharif University of Technology, Iran

Claude Grasland

Université de Paris, France

Paul Heine

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany

Peter Hergersberg

Max-Planck-Society, Germany

Philipp Hövel

University College Cork, Germany

Dennis Jacob

Princeton University, USA

Juergen Jost

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany

Andreas Jungherr

Universität Bamberg, Germany

Anna Keuchenius

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Konstantin Klemm

University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

Kaushal Kumar

Institute for Applied Mathematics / Heidelberg University, Germany

Robin Lamarche-Perrin

Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

Romain Leconte

Université de Paris, France

Simon Levis Sullam

Università Ca' Foscari, Italy

Marco LICalzi

Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy

Kristian Lindgren

Chalmers, Sweden

Philipp Lorenz-Spreen

Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany

Michael Maes

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Burger Martin

FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Giorgia Minello

Università Ca' Foscari, Italy

Eckehard Olbrich

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany

Stijn Peeters

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Armin Pournaki

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany

Pedro Ramaciotti Morales

SciencesPo, Paris, France

Milad Ranjbar

Sharif University of Technology, Iran

Richard Rogers

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Mohammad Salahshour

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany

Carlo Romano Marcello Alessandro Santagiustina

Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Marcel Sarközi

Leipzig University, Germany

Marta Severo

Université de Paris Nanterre, France

Luc Steels

Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Caedyn Stinson

MaxPlanck Insitute for Human Development, Germany

Petter Törnberg

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Etienne Toureille

Université de Paris, France

Rocco Tripodi

University of Bologna, Italy

Justus Uitermark

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Jeroen Van Soest

VUB, Belgium

Livia van Vliet

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Axel Voigt

TU Dresden, Germany

Massimo Warglien

Università Ca' Foscari, Italy

Tom Willaert

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Iva Yamshchikov

Higher School of Economics, Russia

Scientific Organizer

Eckehard Olbrich

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Local Organization

Felix Gaisbauer

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Homepage

Administrative Contact

Antje Vandenberg

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Contact via Mail