Visualizing Information Diffusion and Polarization with Key Statements
Andrew Salway, Nicholas A. Diakopoulos, Dag Elgesem · Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media · 2021
This paper reports ongoing work in the “Networks of Texts and People” project, which is developing methods to visualize the social and epistemological contexts of information contained in blogs. Here, we propose an approach to visualize information diffusion and polarization in the blogosphere, with two novel characteristics. Firstly, we demonstrate how text content can be analyzed and visualized as key statements, rather than as keywords. Secondly, we sketch and discuss ideas for a visual analytic tool that integrates data about blog networks with data about the occurrence of related key statements in blog posts.