Quantitative perspectives on Media and Political Sources

For two days, on March 9th and 10th, 2023, Sciences Po Medialab and the CSS initiative at l’Institut Polytechnique de Paris organized a two-days workshop in Paris. The conference brought together scholars involved in two international research projects, Medialex and Mining for Meaning.

Thursday

9:30-10:00 Introduction by Marc Keuschnigg & Sylvain Parasie

Chair: Sylvain Parasie

10:00-11:00 Anastasia Menshikova (Linköping University): “The Swedish immigration discourse in traditional media and social media”

11:00-12:00 Måns Magnusson (Uppsala University): “Agile Data Curation of Vast Materials”

12:00-2:00 Lunch break

Chair: Étienne Ollion

2:00-3:00 Béatrice Mazoyer, Sylvain Parasie, and Pedro Ramaciotti Morales (Sciences Po – médialab), “Mapping media events promoters in the French digital public space”

3:00-4:00 Emiliano Grossman (Sciences Po – CEE), “Is the media coverage of policymaking and politics becoming more critical?”

4:00-5:00 Hendrik Erz (Linköping university): “Disentangling the Discourse on U.S. Economic Policymaking”

5:00-5:30 Coffee break

5:30 Talk by Sergei Guriev, provost at Sciences Po (McCourt building, 2nd floor)

Friday, March 10

9:30-10:00 Coffee

Chair: Marc Keuschnigg

10:00-11:00 Nicolas Hervé (INA), “Hosting Media Bias. Evidence from the Universe of French Broadcasts, 2002-2020”

11:00-12:00 Elise Noga (Sciences Po – médialab), Jeanne Vermeirsche (Avignon University), “The circulation of political quotes in the French media”

12:00-12:30 Emma Bonutti (Sciences Po), “How Italian journalists cope with the strategies of populist leaders on social media. The Piacenza Case”

12:30-2:00 Lunch break

Chair: Sylvain Parasie

2:00-3:00 Väinö Yrjänäinen (Uppsala University): Word Embedding Uncertainty Estimation. 

3:00-3:30 Annina Claesson (Institut Polytechnique de Paris – CREST), “Twitter: a necessary evil? Journalistic responses to Elon Musk”.

3:30-4:30 Étienne Ollion (CNRS – CREST, with A. Chatelain, F. Lennert, R. Shen), “A Right-Wing Turn in the Media? Measuring Media Slant with Full-Text Data Reveals Unexpected Patterns in the French Media Landscape”

4;30-5:30 Discussion & Conclusion