Digital Democracy: Using Social Media to Improve Political Discourse (Spring - 2020)

Advisor: Andrés Abeliuk (Viterbi School of Engineering)
Students: Alex Spangher , Yash Shah , Swetha Thomas , Hongyu Li , Raveena Kshatriya , Abhi Thadeshwar

Description

Politicians in modern democracies across the world have eagerly adopted social media for engaging their constituents, entering into direct dialogs with citizens. From the perspective of political actors, there is a need to continuously gather, monitor, analyze, and visualize politically relevant information from online social media with the goal to improve communication with citizens and voters. The goal of this proposal is to create a tool that enhances interaction and dialogue between political actors and their followers. This will be achieved by creating compact and comprehensive summaries that aggregate and visualizes common narratives, thus, reducing the cognitive load required to read all the messages and streamlining the dialogue experience.

Awards

  • Best Data Science Collaboration Practices

  • Highlighted Project

Students

Advisors

Skills Required by the team

  • NLP
  • Programming

Final presentation resources

Spring 2020 Featured Best Data Science Collaboration Practices Highlighted Project