This paper proposes a methodology for investigating populism on social media by analyzing the emergence of proto-slogans, defined as nominal utterances (NUs) typical of a political community on social media. We extracted more than 700.000 comments from the public Facebook pages of two Italian populist parties’ leaders (Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio) during the week preceding the 2019 European elections (i.e., from May 20 to May 26, 2019). These comments have been automatically clustered and manually annotated to find proto- slogans created by the parties’ supporters. Our manual annotation consists of four layers, namely:Nominal Utterances (NUs), a syntactic device widely used for slogans; Slogans for NUs with a slogan function; Top-down/Bottom-up, to recognize the slogans produced by the politicians and those produced by supporters; Proto-slogans, for NUs devoid of specific political content that nonetheless express partisanship and support for the leaders.
Share and Shout: Proto-Slogans in Online Political Communities
Irene Russo
Primo
Conceptualization
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2022
Abstract
This paper proposes a methodology for investigating populism on social media by analyzing the emergence of proto-slogans, defined as nominal utterances (NUs) typical of a political community on social media. We extracted more than 700.000 comments from the public Facebook pages of two Italian populist parties’ leaders (Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio) during the week preceding the 2019 European elections (i.e., from May 20 to May 26, 2019). These comments have been automatically clustered and manually annotated to find proto- slogans created by the parties’ supporters. Our manual annotation consists of four layers, namely:Nominal Utterances (NUs), a syntactic device widely used for slogans; Slogans for NUs with a slogan function; Top-down/Bottom-up, to recognize the slogans produced by the politicians and those produced by supporters; Proto-slogans, for NUs devoid of specific political content that nonetheless express partisanship and support for the leaders.| Campo DC | Valore | Lingua |
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| dc.authority.ancejournal | JOURNAL FOR LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY AND COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS | en |
| dc.authority.orgunit | Istituto di linguistica computazionale "Antonio Zampolli" - ILC | en |
| dc.authority.people | Irene Russo | en |
| dc.authority.people | Gloria Comandini | en |
| dc.authority.people | Tommaso Caselli | en |
| dc.authority.people | Viviana Patti | en |
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| dc.date.accessioned | 2024/12/17 16:36:29 | - |
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| dc.date.firstsubmission | 2024/10/07 14:33:42 | * |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | - |
| dc.date.submission | 2025/02/26 18:31:01 | * |
| dc.description.abstracteng | This paper proposes a methodology for investigating populism on social media by analyzing the emergence of proto-slogans, defined as nominal utterances (NUs) typical of a political community on social media. We extracted more than 700.000 comments from the public Facebook pages of two Italian populist parties’ leaders (Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio) during the week preceding the 2019 European elections (i.e., from May 20 to May 26, 2019). These comments have been automatically clustered and manually annotated to find proto- slogans created by the parties’ supporters. Our manual annotation consists of four layers, namely:Nominal Utterances (NUs), a syntactic device widely used for slogans; Slogans for NUs with a slogan function; Top-down/Bottom-up, to recognize the slogans produced by the politicians and those produced by supporters; Proto-slogans, for NUs devoid of specific political content that nonetheless express partisanship and support for the leaders. | - |
| dc.description.allpeople | Russo, Irene; Comandini, Gloria; Caselli, Tommaso; Patti, Viviana | - |
| dc.description.allpeopleoriginal | Irene Russo, Gloria Comandini, Tommaso Caselli, Viviana Patti | en |
| dc.description.fulltext | open | en |
| dc.description.international | si | en |
| dc.description.note | Special Issue on Computational Linguistics for Political and Social Sciences Guest editors: Ines Rehbein, Gabriella Lapesa, Goran Glavaš, Simone Paolo Ponzetto | en |
| dc.description.numberofauthors | 4 | - |
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| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14243/505401 | - |
| dc.identifier.url | https://jlcl.org/article/download/228/226 | en |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.relation.firstpage | 33 | en |
| dc.relation.issue | 2 | en |
| dc.relation.lastpage | 49 | en |
| dc.relation.medium | ELETTRONICO | en |
| dc.relation.numberofpages | 17 | en |
| dc.relation.volume | 35 | en |
| dc.subject.keywordseng | political communication, slogans, populism | - |
| dc.subject.singlekeyword | political communication | * |
| dc.subject.singlekeyword | slogans | * |
| dc.subject.singlekeyword | populism | * |
| dc.title | Share and Shout: Proto-Slogans in Online Political Communities | en |
| dc.type.circulation | Internazionale | en |
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| dc.type.referee | Esperti anonimi | en |
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