{"id":3552,"date":"2018-05-22T15:22:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T13:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/?p=3552"},"modified":"2018-05-28T13:45:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T11:45:26","slug":"lira-session-carlo-proietti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/2018\/05\/lira-session-carlo-proietti\/","title":{"rendered":"LIRa Session: Carlo Proietti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fil.lu.se\/en\/person\/CarloProietti\/\">Carlo\u00a0Proietti<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Date and Time: Thursday, June&nbsp;7th 2018, 16:00-17:30<\/p>\n<p>Venue: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title:\u00a0Group Polarization and Abstract Argumentation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abstract:\u00a0Discussion often makes individuals more radical about their initial opinion. This phenomenon is known as <span lang=\"en-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\"><i>Group-induced Attitude Polarization<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">(Moscovici et al. 1969). A byproduct of it are<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\"><i>bipolarization effects<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">, where the distance between the\u00a0opinions of two groups increases after discussion.\u00a0A fine-grained analysis of the exchange of information among agents in a debate is key to understand how such dynamics unfold. I use Argumentation Graphs as a tool for encoding the information of agents in a debate<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">. Measures of the degree of acceptability of an opinion in a graph are introduced to illustrate how\u00a0polarisation is induced by<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">\u00a0exchange of arguments among agents. I also\u00a0show that different policies of information transmission and update have a decisive impact on polarization and bipolarization effects.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Carlo\u00a0Proietti<br \/>\nDate and Time: Thursday, June&nbsp;7th 2018, 16:00-17:30<br \/>\nVenue: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107.<br \/>\nTitle:\u00a0Group Polarization and Abstract Argumentation<br \/>\nAbstract:\u00a0Discussion often makes individuals more radical about their initial opinion. This phenomenon is known as \u00a0Group-induced Attitude Polarization\u00a0(Moscovici et al. 1969). A byproduct of it are\u00a0bipolarization effects, where the distance between the\u00a0opinions of two groups increases after [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3552"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3564,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions\/3564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}