The moral–emotional foundations of political discourse: a comparative analysis of the speech records of the U.S. and the Japanese legislatures

Takikawa, Hiroki; Sakamoto, Takuto

doi:10.1007/s11135-019-00912-7

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“…Combined with the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count software (Pennebaker et al, 2001), the MFD enabled past empirical studies to quantify morality from written texts. For example, using this dictionary, Graham et al (2009) analyzed the online text data of church sermons and found a higher frequency of words related to the Care, Fairness, and Ingroup foundations in sermons made by liberal preachers than those by their conservative counterparts (see also Takikawa and Sakamoto, 2019). Stolerman and Lagnado (2019) analyzed newspaper articles relevant to human rights and found that these articles contained more individualizing-related words (i.e., Care and Fairness).…”

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Appraisal of the Fairness Moral Foundation Predicts the Language Use Involving Moral Issues on Twitter Among Japanese

Matsuo

Sasahara

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Moral appraisals are found to be associated with a person’s individual differences (e.g., political ideology), and the effects of individual differences on language use have been studied within the framework of the Moral Foundations Theory (MFT). However, the relationship between one’s moral concern and the use of language involving morality on social media is not self-evident. The present exploratory study investigated that relationship using the MFT. Participants’ tweets and self-reported responses to the questionnaire were collected to measure the degree of their appraisals according to the five foundations of the MFT. The Japanese version of the Moral Foundations Dictionary (J-MFD) was used to quantify the number of words in tweets relevant to the MFT’s five moral foundations. The results showed that endorsement of the Fairness and Authority foundations predicted the word frequency in the J-MFD across all five foundations. The findings suggest that the trade-off relationship between the Fairness and Authority foundations plays a key role in online language communication. The implications and future directions to scrutinize that foundation are discussed.

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Appraisal of the Fairness Moral Foundation Predicts the Language Use Involving Moral Issues on Twitter Among Japanese

Matsuo

Sasahara

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…The impact of the narratives on polity and governance research (Smith-Walter et al 2020 ) along with big data, data mining and machine learning techniques (Takikawa and Sakamoto 2020 ), text, content, and discourse analysis, web semantics, and the increasingly complex emotional phenomenology generating huge amounts of data in social media, especially in the socializing networks, have provided support for the fast development of polity research—an issue which has been extensively addressed in a special issue on interdisciplinary research methodologies employed lately in political culture research methodologies (Voinea and Neumann 2020 ).…”

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The State and the Citizen: Overview of a complex relationship from a paradigmatic perspective

2022

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Notwithstanding the huge literature on state studies, both definition and method have always been subject of intense debate. This debate is still open and equally intense despite two millennia of philosophical and methodological attempts to define what the state is, to describe how the state works, and why does it work. As times, geopolitical contexts, and human action have shaped the historical and conceptual trajectory of polity studies, the theories as well as methodologies have increasingly emphasized focus on individuals, (political) cultures, power, and relationships both between individuals and between individuals and the state . With time, the study of these types of relationships have revealed the complexity of the state , and the dynamics of its change. Though economy and political economy theories of the twentieth century gradually diminished the central role of the state in economy in favor of the free market and individual and company small as well as big entrepreneurship, the increased focus on individuals and individual (inter)action(s) has paradoxically turned into a revival of the state , a reinforcement of its role, as latest neo-statism trends reveal. It was the COVID-19 global pandemics to highlight what people think and expect from the state in the volatile European and global political context of our time. Not only that isolation and social distance conditions have deepened and strengthened the perception of the state as the source of their security and receptor of their highest level of trust but have also revealed that the state studies are about to reach again a turning point in the philosophical thinking about society and polity.

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“…• Social Psychology features: Guided by the social-psychology based theoretical models, here we want to measure the feelings of injustice [83] , sense of achievement [21,82], group identity [72] and anger [84] that could serve as potential drives for participation. To identify the language related to injustice, we use Moral Foundations Dictionary that contains a systematically derived list of words pertaining to moral foundations in political ideologies [78]. Specifically, we use the "fairness" lexicon which accommodates virtue words such as rights and equality, and vice related words such as bigot, favoritism, and prejudice [20].…”

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Educators, Solicitors, Flamers, Motivators, Sympathizers: Characterizing Roles in Online Extremist Movements

Phadke¹,

Mitra²

2021

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Social media provides the means by which extremist social movements, such as white supremacy and anti-LGBTQ, thrive online. Yet, we know little about the roles played by the participants of such movements. In this paper, we investigate these participants to characterize their roles, their role dynamics, and their influence in spreading online extremism. Our participants-online extremists accounts-are 4,876 public Facebook pages or groups that have shared information from the websites of 289 Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) designated extremist groups. Guided by theories of participatory activism, we map the information sharing features of these extremists accounts. By clustering the quantitative features followed by qualitative expert validation, we identify five roles surrounding extremist activism-educators, solicitors, flamers, motivators, sympathizers. For example, solicitors use links from extremist websites to attract donations and participation in extremist issues, whereas flamers share inflammatory extremist content inciting anger. We further investigate role dynamics such as, how stable these roles are over time and how likely will extremist accounts transition from one role into another. We find that roles core to the movement-educators and solicitors-are more stable, while flamers and motivators can transition to sympathizers with high probability. Finally, using a Hawkes process model, we test which roles are more influential in spreading various types of information. We find that educators and solicitors exert the most influence in triggering extremist link posts, whereas flamers are influential in triggering the spread of information from fake news sources. Our results help in situating various roles on the trajectory of deeper engagement into the extremist movements and understanding the potential effect of various counter-extremism interventions. Our findings have implications for understanding how online extremist movements flourish through participatory activism and how they gain a spectrum of allies for mobilizing extremism online.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing; Social media; • Social and professional topics → Hate speech.

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The moral–emotional foundations of political discourse: a comparative analysis of the speech records of the U.S. and the Japanese legislatures

Cited by 8 publications

References 34 publications

Appraisal of the Fairness Moral Foundation Predicts the Language Use Involving Moral Issues on Twitter Among Japanese

Appraisal of the Fairness Moral Foundation Predicts the Language Use Involving Moral Issues on Twitter Among Japanese

The State and the Citizen: Overview of a complex relationship from a paradigmatic perspective

Educators, Solicitors, Flamers, Motivators, Sympathizers: Characterizing Roles in Online Extremist Movements

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