New Paper on Socially Unacceptable Discourse (SUD) Classification Published

By Bruno Machado Carneiro, Michele Linardi, Julien Longhi (This paper has been accepted for publication in the International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities – 2023) In this article, we review the main aspects of our study about state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology applied to automatic Socially Unacceptable Discourse (SUD) detection. […]

ARENAS Project Launches Introductory Video

The ARENAS project has launched a short video to introduce the project and share its objectives. The video outlines the issues that the project will consider over the next four years, and how it will address these issues and presents the 15 partners from 9 different countries who are working together on the project.  To […]

ARENAS Project Management handbook published

The ARENAS Project Management handbook has recently been completed and delivered to the European Commission.  It was prepared by Principal Investigator Julien Longhi, full professor of discourse analysis at CY Cergy Paris Université, leader of WP1, and Aude Garses, Consultant at Euronovia (who had been commissioned for the launch of the project). This internal document […]

Ethics in a Post-Truth World

We are living in societies hit by multiple crises: in recent years, we have experienced the COVID-19 pandemic, hybrid threats, a brutal war in Ukraine, inflation, sky-high energy prices and dropping living standards. The consequences of these events have been significant in increasing polarisation, strengthening nationalism, impatience with different views, and the rise of extremism. Social media, […]

The ARENAS Analysis of and Responses to Extremist Narratives Project Launched on May 9th

ARENAS launch family photo

The ARENAS Analysis of and Responses to Extremist Narratives project launched on May 9-11, 2023, with a three-day transnational partner event in Paris.  The project is funded by the EU Horizon Programme, the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027), and is co-ordinated by Julien Longhi and his team in CY Cergy Paris Université, France. […]