Muslims in social media discourse: Combining topic modeling and critical discourse analysis

Törnberg, Anton; Törnberg, Petter

doi:10.1016/j.dcm.2016.04.003

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“…Similar to our claim on choosing the 'right' number of topics, Jacobs & Tschötschel, (2019) argues on focussing on one well-delineated meta subject (such as trade policy or the national economy), and by using a corpus that only features a single genre of texts (newspaper articles, speeches, journalistic piece). It is based on the applied research of Törnberg & Törnberg, (2016b, 2016a on TM and discourse analysis for social policy. It is to be noted that TM do not automatically conduct narrative analysis with the increase in number of topics, higher number of topics do not by definition mean crystallisation of arguments and assumptions in policy analysis.…”

Section: Meta-theoretical Fit Of the Proposed Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

A nested computational social science approach for deep-narrative analysis in energy policy research

Debnath¹,

Darby²,

Bardhan³

et al. 2020

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Text-based data sources like narratives and stories have become increasingly popular as critical insight generator in energy research and social science. However, their implications in policy application usually remain superficial and fail to fully exploit state-of-the-art resources which digital era holds for text analysis. This paper illustrates the potential of deep-narrative analysis in energy policy research using text analysis tools from the cutting-edge domain of computational social sciences, notably topic modelling. We argue that a nested application of topic modelling and grounded theory in narrative analysis promises advances in areas where manual-coding driven narrative analysis has traditionally struggled with directionality biases, scaling, systematisation and repeatability. The nested application of the topic model and the grounded theory goes beyond the frequentist approach of narrative analysis and introduces insight generation capabilities based on the probability distribution of words and topics in a text corpus. In this manner, our proposed methodology deconstructs the corpus and enables the analyst to answer research questions based on the foundational element of the text data structure. We verify the theoretical and epistemological fit of the proposed nested methodology through a meta-analysis of a state-of-the-art bibliographic database on energy policy and computational social science. We find that the nested application contributes to the literature gap on the need for multidisciplinary polyvalence methodologies that can systematically include qualitative evidence into policymaking.

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Section: Meta-theoretical Fit Of the Proposed Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

A nested computational social science approach for deep-narrative analysis in energy policy research

Debnath¹,

Darby²,

Bardhan³

et al. 2020

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“…Mikkola (2017) also observed that themes combine issues and topics that journalists decide to share with the public and are utilised for maintaining the strategies of discursive (de) legitimation. Themes have greatly contributed to the portrayals of international conflicts of varying discursive nature and media (de) legitimisations (e.g., see Törnberg & Törnberg, 2016;Ledwell, 2104;Krotofil, 2018). Under the influence of such theoretical background, this article investigates how the Pakistani newspaper (NI) through the journalistic strategy of employing themes framed the Arab Spring conflict.…”

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Discursive Strategies and Media Representation of Conflicts

Afzal¹

2019

IJEL

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The media's tendency to widely represent conflicts, through legitimization or de-legitimization, makes us believe that media narratives may not be perceived as 'neutral stances' for the public consumption. This study investigates the policy of a mainstream newspaper, The News International (NI), in Pakistan and discursive strategies manipulated by its editorial writers to portray the Arab Spring. It, specifically, examines how the selected newspaper editorials thematically constructed the uprising; (re) formulated the public opinion by echoing the Arab Spring-centred perspectives; and mostly backed the revolting protesters against the dictatorial rules in Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt, Libya and Syria. The data consist of purposefully selected editorials, which were published between January 2011 and December 2012. This particular timeframe has been distinguished for peak media coverage of the events. The qualitative data (editorial content) are analysed by using NVivo. Through discourse analysis approach, it is revealed that editorial writers employed several recurrent themes (e.g., protests, democracy, horror) to project a positive image of the protesters' movement and fully utilised their prerogative in constructing a 'pro-Arab Spring' discourse. This study concludes that such 'opinion discourses' serve as an eye-opener to the role of media in representing conflicts from different angles while staying in different societies. It also provides insights into the ways newspapers (dis) empower readers by promoting certain factions of a conflict and devaluing others.

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“…The state is also required to manouver in different methods of handling in order to defend the internet from terrorist propaganda. The writer identifies that the online propaganda and recruitment systems have been strategically carried out by terrorist groups since the event of 9/11 (Yang Hui, 2010;Alarid, 2013;Törnberg & Törnberg, 2016). This view at least gave birth to a term "online radicalization" sticking out to the public.…”

Section: C) the Propaganda Of Information Through Social Mediamentioning

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Revealing the Propaganda of Communication between The Islamic Fundamentalism Activists of the Middle East and Indonesia

Istadiyantha¹

2018

JKMJC

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This study reviews issues mainly related to propaganda strategies through media and the transmission of messages sustaining the Islamic fundamentalism activists' agenda in the Middle East and Indonesia. Media plays a significant role in supporting the Muslim fundamentalists' activities in both the Middle Eastern regional areas to the Asiatic countries, including Indonesia. This is an attempt to discover the underlying psycho-religious-social factors in the Islamic group of RadicalFundamentalist Movements. This is completed by using a technical model of inductive thinking through exposing the collected data and the previous study results to draw general conclusion under the socio-religious psychology perspective of Peter Neumann as the analytical approach to reveal common underlying factors of people committing radical acts. The phenomenon of radical terrorist trips from the Middle Eastern countries to Indonesia, the occurring radicalization both in different regional areas has never undergone linear process, even tend to be a complex phenomenon. Through Internet media propaganda, Islamic radical-fundamentalist groups have been able to draw the sympathy of Muslims from various countries to jointly carry out jihad. Fundamentalist groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIS, proved to be no longer just local movements in Iraq and Syria, but have turned to be transnational movements. In the process of radicalization, the internet successfully facilitates the Muslim fundamentalist groups to transmitting and developing various narratives on religious life enjoyment under the auspices of the Khilafah which apply a single Islamic law-based state, in addition to position the Western countries as the real enemy to be fought.

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Muslims in social media discourse: Combining topic modeling and critical discourse analysis

Cited by 142 publications

References 21 publications

A nested computational social science approach for deep-narrative analysis in energy policy research

A nested computational social science approach for deep-narrative analysis in energy policy research

Discursive Strategies and Media Representation of Conflicts

Revealing the Propaganda of Communication between The Islamic Fundamentalism Activists of the Middle East and Indonesia

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