


e-Symposium 2023: Political barometer: public opinion mining using tweets
Since the formulation of states, political authorities and political parties have sought to gauge public opinion. In recent years, opinion polls have been able to gratify this need rather efficiently.



e-Symposium 2023: Natural Language processing for political text analysis
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a subfield of artificial intelligence and computational linguistics with the goal of “understanding” human language.



e-Symposium 2023: Studying political communication with social media data: pitfalls, limits and opportunities
The advent of pervasive and connected digital technologies has profoundly affected both the way in which politicians interact with citizens and supporters and the way in which scholars study political communication.



e-Symposium 2023: Algorithmic auditing of political biases in recommender systems
External independent and unobtrusive algorithmic audits offer a fresh perspective for understanding AI-based algorithms used in social media and search engines.



e-Symposium 2023: Depoliticising Social Media? The Politics of State-Sponsored, Election-related Disinformation Studies
The talk discusses the disinformation study undertaken by the author and commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Internal Affairs, published in 2020. It introduces the context of the concern for ‘fake news’ in Europe after the U.S.



e-Symposium 2023: Crowding Out the Truth? A Simple Model of Misinformation, Polarization, and Meaningful Social Interactions
This paper delves into the critical role of social media in debates surrounding polarization, misinformation, and the state of democracy worldwide.