Alerting users about controversial search results can encourage critical literacy, promote
healthy civic discourse and counteract the “filter bubble” effect, and therefore would be a …

Computational Politics is the study of computational methods to analyze and moderate
users' behaviors related to political activities such as election campaign persuasion, political …

Understanding cross-cultural differences has important implications for world affairs and
many aspects of the life of society. Yet, the majority of text-mining methods to date focus on …

Selective exposure, the preferential seeking of confirmatory information, can potentially
exacerbate fragmentation of online opinions and lead to biased decisions. We tested …

We explore Debatepedia, a communityauthored encyclopedia of sociopolitical debates, as
evidence for inferring a lowdimensional, human-interpretable representation in the domain …

This chapter presented an analysis of the application of lexicon-based political sentiment
analysis in social media. The aim is to identify the most frequently used lexicons in political …

Seeking information on a controversial topic is often a complex task. Alerting users about
controversial search results can encourage critical literacy, promote healthy civic discourse …

Internet and social media created a public space for online debate on political and social
issues. A debate is defined as a formal discussion on a set of related issues in which …

News articles often reflect an opinion or point of view, with certain topics evoking more
diverse opinions than others. For analyzing and better understanding public discourses …

Abstract" Exposure to diverse opinions can help individuals develop accurate beliefs, make
better decisions, and become more understanding and tolerant persons. It is also necessary …