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Ashwin Rao

@ashwinrao.bsky.social

Researching Political Polarization and Social Networks @ USC

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Will be presenting my @icwsm.bsky.social paper Polarized Online Discourse on Abortion in Session 5 on Tuesday, June 24 at 1:30PM in CopenhagenπŸ‡©πŸ‡° We find - Symmetric spikes in hostility, use of distinct frames and hostility to the out-group frames.
Would love to see y’all there or chat after!

23.06.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🧡 Excited to present at @icwsm.bsky.social 2025! In this paper with @kristinalerman.bsky.social, we introduce a novel framework for modeling narrative evolution in streaming text data. Link here: arxiv.org/abs/2409.07684

22.06.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

While both sides use distinct frames (e.g., liberals on bodily autonomy, conservatives on fetal personhood), each provokes asymmetric hostility from the other. These patterns reinforce polarization and limit mutual understanding.

28.02.2025 06:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Analyzing 3.5M tweets, we examine how ideological divides shape hostility in abortion debates. We find that liberals & conservatives mirror each other’s hostile rhetoric, with spikes around key events.

28.02.2025 06:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

🚨Late post: Paper with Anna Chang @qkzhong.bsky.social @kristinalerman.bsky.social and Magdalena Wojcieszak- Polarized Online Discourse on Abortion: Frames and Hostile Expressions among Liberals and Conservatives was accepted to @icwsm.bsky.social ! arxiv.org/pdf/2311.16831

28.02.2025 06:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Paper with @kristinalerman.bsky.social, Buddhika Nettasinghe and Allon Percus accepted at TheWebConf 2025. We quantify affective polarization - in-group favoritism & out-group animosity and how it drives divisions on masking & lockdowns. arxiv.org/pdf/2412.14414

24.01.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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