Research
Research
Luo, Xuan, Sota Kato, Asahi Obata, Budrul Ahsan, Ryotaro Okada, and Takafumi Nakanishi. 2023. “A Joint Scene Text Recognition and Visual Appearance Model for Protest Issue Classification.” In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Intelligent Cross-Data Analysis and Retrieval, 32–36. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3592571.3592971.
“Disability and Political Participation: The Effect of Being Denied Disability Benefits”
“Attack Advertisements and Political Participation in the Social Media Era”
with Agustin Prinetti and Randolph T. Stevenson
How does the effect of attack advertising on voter turnout vary depending on the platform through which citizens are exposed to such content? Building on the seminal work of Ansolabehere et al. (1994), which found that attack advertising demobilizes voters by fostering cynicism toward elected officials and the electoral process, we identify conditions under which this effect may be amplified or diminished. We hypothesize that the demobilizing effect of attack advertising will be weaker when the content is encountered on X (formerly Twitter), a platform associated with frequent attack ads and a high volume of political content, compared to Instagram, which is less commonly associated with such content. To test this theory, we conduct an immersive experiment in which participants are exposed to mock-up timelines designed to simulate user experiences on either X or Instagram.
“Forecasting Japanese Elections: A Nonlinear Machine-Learning Approach”
with Sota Kato, Xuan Luo, Budrul Ahsan, and Takafumi Nakanishi
“The Effect of the Passage of the ADA on the Political Efficacy of Persons with Disabilities”
How did the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a civil rights law enacted in 1990, affect the political efficacy of persons with disabilities? Existing studies have shown that persons with disabilities tend to exhibit lower levels of political efficacy and are less likely to participate in politics. However, little is known about the factors that influence political efficacy within this population. I argue that external political efficacy among persons with disabilities was higher in the pre-ADA period than in the post-ADA period, while levels of internal political efficacy remained unchanged. I attribute this shift to changes in political mobilization within the disability community following the ADA’s enactment. To test this hypothesis, I analyze data from the American National Election Studies (ANES). The results support the hypothesis: while having a disability had no significant effect on external political efficacy in the pre-ADA period, it is associated with a decline in external political efficacy in the post-ADA period.
“The Effect of Negative Government Interactions on Political Engagement”
“Official Recognition and Political Participation among Persons with Disabilities: The Case of India”