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Patrick Gerard

PhD student under Kristina Lerman and Emilio Ferrara. Working on making things make sense.

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Qualifying Exam: Modeling Otherism in Conflict Discourse

This presentation explores how large language models can detect and analyze nuanced forms of othering across social media, revealing how moral and threat-based language is used to justify exclusion, escalate conflict, and shape group identity.

Discursive Reality and the Allure of Otherism: Lessons from the Russo-Ukrainian War

This presentation, delivered at Stanford and USC, offers an in-depth exploration of Otherism—examining its nature, mechanisms, and objectives, as well as outlining the essential work required to address it.