Blocking the information war? Testing the effectiveness of the EU’s censorship of Russian state propaganda among the fringe communities of Western Europe

Autor: Christiern Santos Okholm, Amir Ebrahimi Fard, Marijn ten Thij

Publikováno v: Internet Policy Review, Vol Volume 13, Iss Issue 3 (2024)

In response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the European Union banned or geo-blocked Russian propaganda media fearing the effects of the Kremlin’s information warfare on internal public opinion during the largest secu

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Assessing rigid modes of thinking in self-declared abortion ideology: natural language processing insights from an online pilot qualitative study on abortion attitudes

Autor: Danny Valdez, Kristen N. Jozkowski, Katherine Haus, Marijn ten Thij, Brandon L. Crawford, María S. Montenegro, Wen-Juo Lo, Ronna C. Turner, Johan Bollen

Publikováno v: Pilot and Feasibility Studies, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2022)

Abstract Introduction Although much work has been done on US abortion ideology, less is known relative to the psychological processes that distinguish personal abortion beliefs or how those beliefs are communicated to others. As part of a forthcoming

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Online identity as a collective labeling process

Autor: Alexander T J Barron, Marijn ten Thij, Johan Bollen

Publikováno v: Journal of Physics: Complexity, Vol 4, Iss 2, p 025003 (2023)

Expressing identity socially involves a balance between conformity and innovation. One can adopt existing labels to express belonging to a certain community or introduce new labels to express an individual sense of identity. In such a process of co-c

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Declining well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic reveals US social inequities.

Autor: Krishna C Bathina, Marijn Ten Thij, Danny Valdez, Lauren A Rutter, Johan Bollen

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 7, p e0254114 (2021)

BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic led to mental health fallout in the US; yet research about mental health and COVID-19 primarily rely on samples that may overlook variance in regional mental health. Indeed, between-city comparisons of mental health de

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Food for Thought: How can we exploit contextual embeddings in the translation of idiomatic expressions?

Autor: Lukas Santing, Ryan Jean-Luc Sijstermans, Giacomo Anerdi, Pedro Jeuris, Marijn ten Thij, Riza Batista-Navarro

Publikováno v: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FLP), 100-110
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Idiomatic expressions (or idioms) are phrases where the meaning of the phrase cannot be determined from the meaning of the individual words in the expression. Translating idioms between languages is therefore a challenging task. Transformer models ba

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