US DEED Project

Together with the Democratic Erosion Consortium (DEC), the SNaPP Lab has developed the United States Democratic Erosion Event Dataset (US DEED), which records events related to democratic erosion at the state-level over the past two decades. SNaPP Lab students have designed and tested a codebook as well as a replicable event-finding protocol using key search terms in the Access World News (AWN) database. The Lab is in the process of coding events from media sources to populate the US DEED with relevant subnational backsliding events. This project is directed by Dr. Jaime Settle and Dr. Hannah Baron.

 

Podcast Project

The SNaPP Lab Podcast Project is exploring the increasing politicization of non-political podcasts over time. Using natural language processing techniques, the group is selecting, recording, transcribing, and analyzing popular podcasts from 2019-2023. The aim of the project is to investigate whether there are increasing implicit references or shared language between cultural podcasts and political podcasts (looking at both news as well as conservative and liberal punditry). This project is directed by Dr. Jaime Settle and Dr. Vivian Ferrillo.