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Beyond Keywords

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Tounaka, Nobuaki; Nakamura, Kazutaka; Sugiyama, Takaaki; Nakagawa, Daisuke; Shirnen, Buyanjargal; Houghton, James P; Siegel, Michael D; Madnick, Stuart E; ... Show more Show less
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Abstract
The potential of social media to give insight into the dynamic evolution of public conversations, and into their reactive and constitutive role in political activities, has to date been underdeveloped. While topic modeling can give static insight into the structure of a conversation, and keyword volume tracking can show how engagement with a specific idea varies over time, there is need for a method of analysis able to understand how conversations about societal values evolve and react to events in the world by incorporating new ideas and relating them to existing themes. In this article, we propose a method for analyzing social media messages that formalizes the structure of public conversations and allows the sociologist to study the evolution of public discourse in a rigorous, replicable, and data-driven fashion. This approach may be useful to those studying the social construction of meaning, the origins of factionalism and internecine conflict, or boundary-setting and group-identification exercises and has potential implications. Keywords: social media, framing, public conversation, analysis tools, visualization
Date issued
2017-10
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120723
Department
Sloan School of Management
Journal
Sociological Methods & Research
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Citation
Houghton, James P., Michael Siegel, Stuart Madnick, Nobuaki Tounaka, Kazutaka Nakamura, Takaaki Sugiyama, Daisuke Nakagawa, and Buyanjargal Shirnen. “Beyond Keywords.” Sociological Methods & Research (October 10, 2017): 004912411772970. © 2017 The Authors
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0049-1241
1552-8294

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