V-Shift

On March 26th, Ákos Holányi presented the paper entitled “Negotiating the New Pact on Migration: does populism explain the outcome of Council of the EU deliberations?” at the Populist ‘Unpolitics’: How Populist Governments Affect EU Policymaking, ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops at Leuphana University, in Lüneburg. The programme of the workshop is available here: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/WorkshopDetails/14468. 

On March 23, 2024, a new article has been published by Orsolya Ring, Martina Katalin Szabó, Csenge Guba, Bendegúz Váradi and István Üveges in the  Language Resources and Evaluation. The title of the article is:  “Approaches to sentiment analysis of Hungarian political news at the sentence level.” The publication is available here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10579-023-09717-5. 

On March 14, Hajo G. Boomgaarden gave a lecture at the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Political Science. The title of his lecture was “The challenge of measuring disinformation.”  Hajo G. Boomgaarden is Professor of Methods in the Social Sciences with a focus on Text Analysis at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna. Much of his work revolves around the analysis of (news) media coverage and its effects on political cognitions, attitudes and behaviour. He has co-authored more than 40 articles in international journals and numerous book chapters. As Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna, Hajo Boomgaarden deals with further advancements of computerized methods of text analysis and multimedia analysis, in addition to his ongoing work on political communication.

On March 5, 2024, the Institute for Political Science of the Centre for Social Sciences presented the ‘Researcher of the Year’ award to Miklós Sebők. Congratulations!

On November 23rd and 24th, poltextLAB organized a data presentation workshop focused on Central-Eastern European Politics and machine learning. During the 2-day event, 12 papers were presented from the fields of media, law, policy and parliamentary politics. The conference programme and the photo gallery are available here: https://poltextlab.com/events/.