I'm teaching "NLP for Cultural Analytics" at UW Linguistics this quarter, and I thought I'd share my reading list for the course.
https://maria-antoniak.github.io/teaching/2023-nlp-ca
Lots of usual suspects from the Journal of Cultural Analytics, but also pieces from NLP and computational social science. Thinking back to an earlier thread on "what even is cultural analytics," you can see from this list my perception of the field (or maybe just what I'm in the mood to read right now).
@maria_antoniak More a developer than a data scientist, but my current work is pushing me in that direction so haven't been exposed to much of the literature here. The paper on information manipulation in wartime Russia is just the thing I didn't know I was missing until your post here. Thank you!
For reference: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.12382
NLP research on public opinion manipulation campaigns has primarily focused on detecting overt strategies such as fake news and disinformation. However, information manipulation in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war exemplifies how governments and media also employ more nuanced strategies. We release a new dataset, VoynaSlov, containing 38M+ posts from Russian media outlets on Twitter and VKontakte, as well as public activity and responses, immediately preceding and during the 2022 Russia-Ukraine war. We apply standard and recently-developed NLP models on VoynaSlov to examine agenda setting, framing, and priming, several strategies underlying information manipulation, and reveal variation across media outlet control, social media platform, and time. Our examination of these media effects and extensive discussion of current approaches' limitations encourage further development of NLP models for understanding information manipulation in emerging crises, as well as other real-world and interdisciplinary tasks.
Maria Antoniak
SirLeeJackwagon
pablo suárez-serrato