Beyond Keywords: Tracking the Evolution of Conversational Clusters in Social Media

Autor/inn/en	Houghton, James P.; Siegel, Michael; Madnick, Stuart; Tounaka, Nobuaki; Nakamura, Kazutaka; Sugiyama, Takaaki; Nakagawa, Daisuke; Shirnen, Buyanjargal
Titel	Beyond Keywords: Tracking the Evolution of Conversational Clusters in Social Media
Quelle	In: Sociological Methods & Research, 48 (2019) 3, S.588-607 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0049-1241
DOI	10.1177/0049124117729705
Schlagwörter	Social Media; Political Attitudes; Computer Mediated Communication; Social Values; Information Retrieval; Discourse Analysis; Research Methodology; Social Influences; Conflict; Identification (Psychology); Racial Bias; Violence; Churches; Statistical Analysis; Computational Linguistics; African Americans; South Carolina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Medien; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Computerkonferenz; Sozialer Wert; Diskursanalyse; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Sozialer Einfluss; Konflikt; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Gewalt; Church; Kirche; Statistische Analyse; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Afroamerikaner
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. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01