Kaleidoscopic Patterns of Protest:
A Fresh Look at Mediated Protest through Stories and Stats
We are delighted to announce that a workshop on our project Kaleidoscopic Patterns of Protest (KPoP), which explored how Large Language Models (LLMs) and computational methods are transforming the study of protest movements in Eastern Europe, will be held on Tuesday, 3 June 2025.
In the workshop, our team will present the results of the two-year KPoP project that focused on YouTube video data as primary source and bridges Digital Humanities, political science and computational methods. For the workshop, we have also invited leading experts in the field whose research is relevant to our project, ranging from visual analysis of Belarusian protests to algorithmic representation of civil resistance, from multimodal study of news narratives to techniques for detecting misinformation. This meeting will showcase cutting-edge approaches to understanding social movements in regions where direct observation is often limited.
We invite all colleagues and interested participants from computational methods, political analysis, slavic and media studies backgrounds to participate in the workshop and join the presentations. Participants will gain valuable insights into the capabilities of advanced AI models in exploring contemporary protest dynamics and their online representation.
We look forward to a productive and engaging workshop!
Tuesday, 3 June 2025 Innrain 52d (GEIWI), Room 4U102b
Workshop programme
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09:30-09:45 |
Welcome by Jürgen Fuchsbauer, Dean of the Faculty of Language, Literature and Culture Organizational remarks |
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09:45-10:15 |
Gernot Howanitz, Magdalena Kaltseis, Varvara Kulhayeva & Ilya Sulzhytski (Innsbruck) Kaleidoscopic Patterns of Protest: Project overview |
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10:15-10:45 |
Coffee break |
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10:45-11:15 |
Yaraslava Ananka (Leipzig) & Heinrich Kirschbaum (Freiburg) The Syntax of Dissent: Terminological Meditations on the Poetics of the Belarusian Protests 2020-2025 |
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11:15-11:45 |
Elizaveta Gaufman (Groningen) Everyday Foreign Policy: Protesting the War in an Authoritarian Regime |
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11:45-12:15 |
Mykola Makhortykh (Bern) Google, is it a Protester or an Activist? Auditing the Algorithmic Gaze on Different Forms of Civil Resistance |
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12:15-14:00 |
Lunch break |
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14:00-14:30 |
Adam Jatowt (Innsbruck) Fake News or Misinformation Detection |
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14:30-15:00 |
Bernhard Bermeitinger (St. Gallen) Applied AI: Turning Data into Action |
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15:00-15:30 |
Coffee break |
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15:30-16:00 |
Ralph Ewerth (Marburg) The FakeNarratives Project: Multimodal Computational Analysis of News Videos |
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16:00-17:00 |
Gernot Howanitz, Magdalena Kaltseis, Varvara Kulhayeva & Ilya Sulzhytski (Innsbruck) Kaleidoscopic Patterns of Protest: Results and Discussion |
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19:00 |
Dinner |