Research

Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Toxic Talk: Structural Toxicity on a Japanese Anonymous Textboard
Loris Lombardi. Emerging Media 3(4), 621–644, 2025.
[doi] open access

Book chapters

AI-Assisted Policymaking in Japan and the DeepSeek Shock
Loris Lombardi and Muneo Kaigo. In Muneo Kaigo and Hidehiro Yamamoto (eds.), Digital Transformation and Public Acceptance in Japan: Legal, Institutional, and Civic Perspectives, chapter 5. Advances in Information and Communication Research, vol. 8. Springer, 2026. in press

Conference presentations

“We Will End Up Becoming an AI Colony”: Tracing a Techno-Colonial Frame Across Anonymous, Journalistic, and State Discourse in Japan
Loris Lombardi and Muneo Kaigo. 12th Annual Conference of The International Journal of Press/Politics, National University of Singapore, November 2026. forthcoming peer-reviewed

Public Anxiety and Trust in AI Governance in Japan
Loris Lombardi and Muneo Kaigo. 32nd AMIC Annual Conference (Asian Media Information and Communication Centre), Manila, Philippines, November 2026. forthcoming peer-reviewed

Making Ambiguous Harm Legible: Human-in-the-Loop LLM Corpus Construction for Hate-Speech Frontiers in Japanese Digital Discourse
Loris Lombardi. JADH 2026, 15th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, September 2026. In Proceedings of JADH 2026, 49–51. peer-reviewed

「平等」はいかに語られてきたか：国会会議録に基づく計量的分析 (How Has “Equality” Been Discussed? A Quantitative Analysis Based on National Diet Records)
Hidehiro Yamamoto and Loris Lombardi. Poster, annual meeting of the Japanese Association of Electoral Studies, Nihon University, Tokyo, June 2026. peer-reviewed

Possibilities and Problems with Acceptance of AI-Assisted Policymaking: The Case of Japan
Muneo Kaigo and Loris Lombardi. 11th Annual Conference of The International Journal of Press/Politics, National University of Singapore, November 2025. peer-reviewed

The Role of Toxicity in Chan-Style Communication: A Computational Text-as-Data Analysis of Japanese News Comments
Loris Lombardi. 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Research Escalator (Computational Methods Division), Denver, USA, June 2025. peer-reviewed

Onna Tataki: An Affect Analysis of Hate Speech on Japanese 2channel towards Female Politicians
Loris Lombardi. 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Research Escalator (Political Communication Division), Denver, USA, June 2025. peer-reviewed

Donne in politica e odio online: analisi quantitativa delle emozioni su 2channel giapponese
Loris Lombardi. 2nd International Draine Colloquium “Discours de haine et émotions : enjeux idéologiques et épistémologiques”, LIDILEM, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France, May 2025. peer-reviewed

Detecting Trends of Online Toxicity in Japan — A Case Study on Talk.jp
Loris Lombardi and Muneo Kaigo. ICA Preconference “Digital Asia”, International Communication Association, Gold Coast, Australia, June 2024. peer-reviewed

Invited talks and other presentations

Hate Speech in Japanese Anonymous Communities: Non-regulation and Platform Affordances
Loris Lombardi. UT–UGA Thematic School on Hate Speech, Grenoble, France, March 2025.

AI and Corpus Analysis: Exploring the Potential of AI in Analyzing Online Comments
Loris Lombardi. UT–UGA Thematic School on Gender Studies, University of Tsukuba, Japan, December 2024.

Assessing the Toxicity Level of Japanese Online News Comments with Perspective API
Loris Lombardi. Poster, Jinsha Poster Contest, University of Tsukuba, Japan, January 2024.