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The research aim of this project is to combine two state-of-the-art approaches in measuring opinion - survey research and data analytics of social media. Its focus lies on the topics of polarization of opinions on social exclusion, climate change, and COVID-19 to identify if and how polarization - a shift towards more extreme positions - occurs within those sources, if and how opinions and respondents differ between sources, and whether the opinions in the sources are aligned.

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This project is part of the Route63 collaboration and funded by both Graz University of Technology and University of Graz.

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Subject Area Computer Science Sociology
University Graz University of Technology University of Graz
Institute Institute of Interactive Systems
and Data Science
Institute of Sociology
Project Head Assoc.Prof. Elisabeth Lex Univ.-Prof. Markus Hadler
Email elisabeth.lex(at)tugraz.at markus.hadler(at)uni-graz.at
PhD Student Markus Reiter-Haas Beate Klösch
Email reiter-haas(at)tugraz.at beate.kloesch(at)uni-graz.at

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