Description du projet
L’impact des médias sociaux sur la polarisation politique
La communication est influencée par les médias sociaux, la numérisation des actualités et les forums de discussion. Dans ce contexte, le projet ODYCCEUS, financé par l’UE, entend étudier les fondements conceptuels, les méthodologies et les solutions qui permettraient de mieux appréhender l’impact de ces formes de communication. Il élaborera des outils pour interpréter le discours des médias numériques, dans le but de comprendre comment se forment et se diffusent les opinions sur des sujets conflictuels tels que la polarisation politique et l’extrémisme en ligne. En utilisant des extensions de la théorie des jeux, ODYCCEUS concevra également une plateforme modulaire ouverte appelée Penelope, qui sera disponible en tant que ressource communautaire ouverte. En outre, le projet mettra au point deux outils participatifs innovants (l’Observatoire de l’opinion et le Facilitateur d’opinion) qui permettront aux citoyens de suivre, de visualiser et d’influencer activement la dynamique des situations de conflit.
Objectif
Social media and the digitization of news and discussion fora are having far-reaching effects on the way individuals and communities communicate, organize, and express themselves. Can the information circulating on these platforms be tapped to better understand and analyze the enormous problems facing our contemporary society? Could this help us to better monitor the growing number of social crises due to cultural differences and diverging world-views? Would this facilitate early detection and perhaps even ways to resolve conflicts before they lead to violence? The Odycceus project answers all these questions affirmatively. It will develop the conceptual foundations, methodologies, and tools to translate this bold vision into reality and demonstrate its power in a large number of cases.
Specifically, the project seeks conceptual breakthroughs in Global Systems Science, including a fine-grained representation of cultural conflicts based on conceptual spaces and sophisticated text analysis, extensions of game theory to handle games with both divergent interests and divergent mindsets, and new models of alignment and polarization dynamics. The project will also develop an open modular platform, called Penelope, that integrates tools for the complete pipeline, from data scraped from social media and digital sources, to visualization of the analyses and models developed by the project. The platform features an infrastructure allowing developers to provide new plug-ins for additional steps in the pipeline, share them with others, and jointly develop the platform as an open source community. Finally, the project will build two innovative participatory tools, the Opinion Observatory and the Opinion Facilitator, which allow citizens to monitor, visualize and influence the dynamics of conflict situations that involve heterogeneous cultural biases and non-transparent entanglements of multilateral interests.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
80539 Munchen
Allemagne