Research

Publications

AI-Assisted Policymaking in Japan and the DeepSeek Shock
Loris Lombardi and Muneo Kaigo. In Digital Transformation and Public Acceptance in Japan, Springer, 2026. in press

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

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.

Making Ambiguous Harm Legible: Human-in-the-Loop LLM Corpus Construction for Hate-Speech Frontiers in Japanese Digital Discourse
Loris Lombardi. JADH 2026, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, September 2026.

「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.

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.

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

Onna Tataki: An Affect Analysis of Hate Speech on Japanese 2channel towards Female Politicians
Loris Lombardi. 75th ICA Annual Conference (Political Communication), Denver, USA, June 2025.

Donne in politica e odio online: analisi quantitativa delle emozioni su 2channel giapponese
Loris Lombardi. Draine Conference, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France, May 2025.

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

Workshops & other talks

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.