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Eszter Katona

assistant lecturer

Eszter Katona

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Eszter Katona

assistant lecturer

Eszter Katona, survey statistician, started her PhD studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of ELTE in 2018 and works as an assistant lecturer at the Department for Social Research Methodology. Her supervisors are Renáta Németh (ELTE, RC2S2) and Mihály Fazekas (CEU). Her PhD research focuses on the possibilities of applying natural language processing in corruption research: analysing corruption discourse in online media and detecting corruption risk in public procurement tenders.
In addition to text analytics, her methodological interests focus on data visualisation; beyond its practical application, she also examines it from an ethical perspective.

Corruption in Online Editorial Media

In recent years, members of our research group have published several studies on corruption research in Hungarian and international leading journals as well. These researches were based on survey data. Turning to nun-survey based methods, our research team has conducted two case studies using NLP methods in corruption research in 2018-2019, . The first case […]

Discursive framing of depression in online health communities

Depression is a disease of modernity, where societies impose increased responsibility on the individual, while the individual does not have the opportunity to change his or her circumstances (Sik 2018). In this sense, the problem of depression is embedded into the more general problem of the distortion of social integration. A current question in sociology […]

The layers of political public sphere in Hungary (2001–2020)

A sociological analysis of the official, media-based and lay online public sphere using automated text analytics and critical discourse analysis A research project supported by NKFIH (National Research, Development and Innovation Office) (K-134428) Period of support: December 2020-December 2023 Date of the report: 20. December 2023. Principal Investigator: Renáta Németh Participants: Ildikó Barna, Jakab Buda, […]

Digital Lens

Our research group Revisiting Early Testimonies of Hungarian Jewish Holocaust Survivors through a Digital Lens, or Digital Lens for short was established in 2021. The main objective of our research is the quantitative “automated” and qualitative analysis of protocols made in 1945 by the National Committee for the Care of Deportees (DEGOB), which are the […]

Data Science in Social Research

One of the challenges of applying data analytics in sociology is the institutionalization of data science outside of sociology, as the former expertise of sociology was based on its own method of research. Another challenge is epistemological in nature, relates to the noisiness and validity of digital data, and the question of explanation/causation, which is […]