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Nick Beauchamp, Lu Wang, Jing Li, Sarah Shugars
Keeping the Public Sphere OpenNULab Spring Conference, Northeastern University
March 24, 2017
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� “Political dialogue” is critical to civic health
� Conversations may take place in diverse settings
Motivation
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� “Political dialogue” is critical to civic health
� Conversations may take place in diverse settings
Motivation
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� “Political dialogue” is critical to civic health
� Conversations may take place in diverse settings
Motivation
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� “Political dialogue” is critical to civic health
� Conversations may take place in diverse settings
Motivation
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“A portion of the public sphere comes into being in every conversation in which private individuals assemble to form a public body.”
Habermas (1964)
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� Open to all
� Public conversation
� Cross-cutting political debate and deliberation
� Ultimate public sphere
The Dream of the Internet
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Reality
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Reality
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Reality
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Research Question
What makes a productive political conversation?
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Research Question
• Individual characteristics• Situation or context• Topic of discussion• Interactions between discussants
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� Over 1 million Twitter “conversations”
� Collected between May 2016 – January 2017
Data
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� Dialogue-related keywords:� agree, agreed, great point� disagree, wrong, bad idea, stupid idea� good point, understand, interesting, I see
� Political keywords:� Trump, Clinton, Hillary� Election, president, politics� Political hashtags
Data
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� 607,135 Tweets
� 166,798 Users
� 79,983 Conversations
Data: Subset
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Model
• What types of conversation do people have?
• What makes a conversation go well or poorly?
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Developing a typology of conversations:
� Conversation is a sequence of tweets, t1…tn
� Each tweet has:� a : Aspect (topic) � s : Sentiment (+ / - )� d : Dialogue type
Model
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Developing a typology of conversations:
� Conversation is a sequence of tweets, t1…tn
� Each tweet has:� a : Aspect (topic) � s : Sentiment (+ / - )� d : Dialogue type
� Each conversation has: � A : Content of conversation � S + D : Style of conversation
Model
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Model
t1
s1
t2 t3
d1
a1
s2
d2
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s3
d3
a3
t : Tweet
a : topic
s : sentiment
d : dialoguetype
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Model
t1
s1
t2 t3
d1
a1
s2
d2
a2
s3
d3
a3A : Content of
Conversation
S + D : Style ofConversation
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Examples
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Example Tweets+
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� Sentiment moves� A(+) B(-) A(+) B(-) : The saint� A(+) B(-) A(-) B(-) : The usual� A(+) B(-) A(+) B(+) : The recovery
� Dialogue moves� Disagreement, question, fact, acknowledgement, etc.
� Content moves� Let’s talk about the weather instead
à What should we be looking for?
A typology of dialogue
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� What conditions further good dialogue types?
� How do we change social media or other institutions to further those conditions?
� Dialogue bots who occasionally interject:
“Good point!”?
Next: discovery and institution-building