Bloggers’ Responses to the Snowden Affair: Combining Automated and Manual Methods in the Analysis of News Blogging

dc.contributor.authorElgesem, Dag
dc.contributor.authorFeinerer, Ingo
dc.contributor.authorSteskal, Lubos
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-06T13:06:30Z
dc.date.available2020-06-06T13:06:30Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThe Snowden affair gave rise to a huge public debate about not only the legitimacy of the secret surveillance programs he revealed but also about Snowden himself and about the accuracy of the information he leaked. In this paper we present an analysis of how the affair was discussed in the English language blogosphere, based on a corpus of 15,000 blog posts written about Snowden and published from June 2013 to June 2014, as a sub-corpus of a larger corpus of 100,000 blog posts on the topic of surveillance, written during the period 2006–2014. Automated tools are used to identify the topics that characterize the blogging about surveillance and the posts about the Snowden affair. Through an in-depth analysis of the blog posts that commented on Snowden’s revelations of the PRISM program for surveillance of social media users, we chart how bloggers responded to Snowden and his role in this disclosure, whether they found the information credible, and the extent to which they expressed criticism of the surveillance practices. The analysis is used as a basis for discussing the role of blogs in the civic engagement during the first phase of the Snowden affair.de
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10606-016-9251-z
dc.identifier.pissn1573-7551
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10606-016-9251-z
dc.identifier.urihttps://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/3829
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofComputer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): Vol. 25
dc.relation.ispartofseriesComputer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
dc.subjectBlog research
dc.subjectBlogs
dc.subjectCluster analysis
dc.subjectSocial media
dc.subjectSurveillance
dc.subjectTopic analysis
dc.subjectTrust
dc.titleBloggers’ Responses to the Snowden Affair: Combining Automated and Manual Methods in the Analysis of News Bloggingde
dc.typeText/Journal Article
gi.citation.endPage191
gi.citation.startPage167

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