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SUMMARY:CPG: Christian Grose (USC\, Political Science)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Do Funding Communications Increase Election Officials’ Willingness to Open More Polling Places? A Field Experiment\n \nAbstract: Can encouragement communications cause election officials to open more polling places? Does increasing spending on elections to open more polling places lead to higher voter turnout? Public officials who administer elections make decisions about the operation of elections\, and these decisions are directly influenced by budgets available. However\, scholars of elections have rarely examined the role of budgets on elite choices regarding making it easier to vote. I theorize that some election administrators are stewards of voter access while others are not. A field experiment was conducted during the 2020 US general election where local election officials randomly received direct communications encouraging them to apply for funding by a nonpartisan university institute; and a control group of local election officials were not. Results of the field experiment show that the randomized communication led to a 3.9%-point increase in local officials applying for and receiving the funding compared to control group officials. In a 2SLS causal model and in correlational analyses\, there is evidence that exogenous increases to election budgets and exogenous increases in polling locations led to higher voter participation. The conclusions are that some public officials can be encouraged to increase voter access via budgetary or financial nudges and communications.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/cpg-christian-grose-usc-political-science/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group
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SUMMARY:Department Speaker Series: Swabha Swayamdipta (USC\, Computer Science)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Understanding Online Discourse through Social Context and Structured Pragmatics \nAbstract: In an increasingly online world\, understanding discourse on social media is akin to understanding our society. However\, when it comes to social media discourse\, a disproportionate amount of focus has been laid on content moderation via hate speech detection. In this talk\, I will address a key limitation of this application: existing hate speech detection systems are riddled with racial biases introduced during annotation\, which are reinforced and propagated by models trained on such data. I will present the inadequacies of current methods for debiasing hate speech detection and show how the subjectivity of this task design leads to debiasing failures. Next\, I will focus on uncovering the origin of bias in toxic language detection. I will demonstrate how annotators’ demographics and beliefs influence their toxicity ratings\, and how ignoring such societal context can lead to biased outcomes. Finally\, I will present some ongoing work on understanding online discourse on homelessness\, which presents some unique challenges. Overall\, I will argue for the value of rethinking traditional the hate speech classification task\, and the need for richer context and nuance when considering online discourse.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/swabha-swayamdipta-usc-computer-science/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
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