Oracles of Peace: Topic Modeling, Cultural Opportunity, and the Nobel Peace Prize, 1902–2012*

摘要: Social movement frames are dynamic, shifting and embedded within an already existent cultural milieu—a milieu that affects mobilization opportunities. In this article, we invoke the concept of “cultural clearinghouse” to tackle how broader structures translate or influence frame resonance. Our illustrative case, Nobel Peace Prize, along with our use topic modeling, a computational technique identifies commonalities between texts, offer important methodological advance for social scholars interested in culture, formation resonance, dynamic approaches discourse. findings show peace discourse—as represented by Prize acceptance speeches—increasingly has become emphases on globalization neoliberalism, versus earlier Christian global institutional schemas. We conclude discussing usefulness conceptual special att...