The Third Annual
Journal of Information Technology & Politics Conference
May 16 &
17, 2011 – University of Washington
- Seattle, WA
JITP 2011 Speaker: Tayebeh
Yazdani nia, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Title: "Politics
2.0 with Facebook - Collecting and Analyzing Public Comments on Facebook
for Studying Political Discourses"
Abstract:
Analyzing publicly available content on various social media sites
such as YouTube and Twitter, as well as social network sites such as
Facebook, has become an increasingly popular method for studying
socio-political issues. Such public-contributed content, primarily
available as comments, let people express their opinions and
sentiments on a given topic, news-story, or post, while allowing
social and political scientists to extend their analysis of a
political discourse to social sphere. We recognize the importance of
Facebook in such analysis and present several approaches and
observations of collecting and analyzing public comments from it. In
particular, we demonstrate what it takes to do this manually, what
we could learn from it, and how we can automate this process using a
Facebook Harvester tool we have developed. In addition, we show how
a hybrid approach can be formed giving us quick and easy data
collection, and meaningful data analysis with substantially less
effort than a manual approach. We believe these methods and tools
will be highly valuable for political scientists in studying various
political discourses as they take place in the Web 2.0 world.
Tayebeh Yazdani nia is a master student in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University. She has a BS in Software Engineering
from the University of Science and Culture in Iran. She completed her bachelor's degree in Software Engineering in University of Science and
Culture in Iran.
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