Computational text analysis: thoughts on the contingencies of an evolving method

  • Mapping a public discourse with the tools of computational text analysis comes with many contingencies in the areas of corpus curation, data processing and analysis, and visualisation. However, the complexity of algorithmic assemblies and the beauty of resulting images give the impression of ‘objectivity’. Instead of concealing uncertainties and artefacts in order to tell a coherent and all-encompassing story, retaining the variety of alternative assemblies may actually strengthen the method. By utilising the mobility of digital devices, we could create mutable mobiles that allow access to our laboratories and enable challenging rearrangements and interpretations.

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Author:Daniel Marciniak
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-422306
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716670190
Parent Title (German):Big Data & Society
Publisher:Sage
Place of publication:Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2016/11/25
Year of first Publication:2016
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2016/11/25
Tag:Big Data; Topic modelling; network analysis; science and technology studies; text analysis; visualisation
Volume:2016
Issue:July–December
Page Number:5
First Page:1
Last Page:5
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HeBIS-PPN:428669506
Institutes:Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Dewey Decimal Classification:0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
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