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Agendas in online media have become a scholarly focus nearly two decades ago, leading to shifting conceptualizations of what we see as agenda. Thus, agendas and agenda shifts inside online discussions have shown its potential to influence offline deliberation, aggregate support, fuel protest, passing through and/or bypassing traditional media’s gatekeeping. Real-time (or nearly-real-time) learning about quick agenda movement inside globalized public debate might be particularly important for international organizations like UN or EU. However, we today lack both knowledge on how agendas move in such discussions and instruments on such analysis. In particular, we are next-to-unaware of to what extent globally relevant themes get contextualized within language-based discussion segments, as well as to what extent the latter depend on each other and lag behind each other in developing agendas and public opinion on quickly evolving issues or conflicts. In this paper, we propose a method of agenda detection based on neural-network text summarization and compare summaries of tweet packages across three languages within the Twitter hashtag #jesuischarlie. We show that sentiment detection may allow for quality assessment of the text summaries, as compared to aggregated sentiment to the original tweets. We show that, outside France, agendas were more interpretational, abstract, and non-contextualized. The pattern of news changing to ‘issue outburt’ was simultaneous in dense discussion segments and lagged behind in a sparser one. We also show that, globally, main issues of the discussion may be spotted within the first hour.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Social Computing and Social Media |
Subtitle of host publication | Experience Design and Social Network Analysis - 13th International Conference, SCSM 2021, Held as Part of the 23rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2021, Proceedings |
Editors | Gabriele Meiselwitz |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 221-239 |
Number of pages | 19 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783030776251 |
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State | Published - 2021 |
Event | 13th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media, SCSM 2021, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2021 - Virtual, Online Duration: 24 Jul 2021 → 29 Jul 2021 |
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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Volume | 12774 LNCS |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference | 13th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media, SCSM 2021, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2021 |
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City | Virtual, Online |
Period | 24/07/21 → 29/07/21 |
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