Mixing SNA and semioticsa methodological framework for analyzing online collective subjectivities

Resumo

This paper proposes a combination of linguistics and sociology in order to develop an empirical methodological approach for analyzing different interest groups on social media. From sociology, we articulate the concept of collective subjectivities (CS) for the virtual environment and propose to call its virtual layer online collective subjectivities (OCS). The causality of a CS is different of the weberian active causality and of the durkheimian conditional causality. The collective causality has to be understood as a property of the social systems, which refers to their interactions. For the OCS analysis, we consider a specific social media debate as a proxy of a social system. Thus, OCSs and their members interact on a social network in such a way that they have a causal effect over the world that may be intentional or not. The line of argumentation developed here is based on empirical finding that clustering algorithms divide a retweet network in groups that have distinct worldviews – in this specific case, political views.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2018

Instituição

Fundação Getulio Vargas

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Inglês

Acesso

Acesso aberto

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/24844

Palavras-chave

Methodological approachLinguisticsSociologyCollective subjectivitiesSocial networksOnline collective subjectivitiesCiência políticaRedes sociais on-lineDiscussões e debatesLinguagem e línguas - Uso