Us vs. Them: A Dataset of Political Othering in Brazilian WhatsApp Discourse
Political polarization is increasingly expressed through discursive strategies that construct moral and symbolic boundaries between “us” and “them”.
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10.1145/3800935.3830842
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979-8-4007-2564-7
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Us vs. Them: A Dataset of Political Othering in Brazilian WhatsApp Discourse
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Daniel Kansaon, Fabricio Benevenuto, Diana Maynard
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830842
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CC BY 4.0
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Political polarization is increasingly expressed through discursive strategies that construct moral and symbolic boundaries between “us” and “them”.
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hate speech; fear speech; othering; natural language processing; social networks; whatsapp; dataset
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2026-09-14
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HT '26: 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext, London, United Kingdom, September 14–18, 2026
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CCS Concepts: • Computing methodologies → Natural language processing ; • Information systems → Social networks ; • Applied computing → Sociology ;
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Daniel Kansaon, Fabricio Benevenuto, Diana Maynard
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ACM Reference Format: Daniel Kansaon, Fabricio Benevenuto, and Diana Maynard. 2026. Us vs. Them: A Dataset of Political Othering in Brazilian WhatsApp Discourse. In 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext (HT '26), September 14--18, 2026, London, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA 13 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830842