Discovery of Emergent Issues and Controversies in Anthropology Using Text Mining, Topic Modeling, and Social Network Analysis of Microblog Content

摘要: R is a convenient tool for analyzing text content to discover emergent issues and controversies in diverse corpora. In this case study, I investigate the use of Twitter at major conference professional academic anthropologists. Using identify demographics community, structure community Twitter-using anthropologists, topics that dominate messages. describe series statistical methods handling large corpus messages might otherwise be impractical analyze. A key finding transformative effect academia easily enable spontaneous formation information-sharing communities bound by an interest event or topic.