The cultural outcomes of social movements: a computational linguistics approach

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1285/i20356609v14i3p1151" target="_blank" >10.1285/i20356609v14i3p1151</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The cultural outcomes of social movements: a computational linguistics approach

Original language description

Scholars have long established the importance of the cultural outcomes of social movements in the context of political power and representation. However, they have also acknowledged the methodological difficulties associated with studying cultural outcomes, especially when culture is manifested through linguistic practices. This paper addresses the potential for dealing with movements and culture as manifested in symbols, public discourse, narratives, and rhetoric and makes two contributions: It links the social movement literature studying culture through language with Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques for systematic and comprehensive cultural analysis; and introduces a state-of the-art method which provides a better understanding of language change and linguistic influence given the capacity of computational analyses to process large volumes of data for multiple actors and varied data sources during long periods of time. The paper describes the cultural influence of women organizations in Spain between 2000-2020 on issues such as gender inequalities, abortion, gender violence, prostitution, and surrogacy. Tweets and manifestos by women&apos;s organizations&apos;, as well as national press coverage of women issues and interventions by MPs in the parliamentary arena, are used to describe the advantages and limitations of the method for the study of cultural outcomes. Computational linguistics provides new possibilities for scholarly research on cultural outcomes of social movements but also shows that these methods should be accompanied by precise definitions of cultural outcomes, detailed and replicable operationalisation processes, and theoretical models that identify the mechanisms that explain the linguistic phenomena that underly cultural change.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Partecipazione e Conflitto

ISSN

1972-7623

e-ISSN

2035-6609

Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

IT - ITALY

Number of pages

29

Pages from-to

1151-1179

UT code for WoS article

000720337700009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85124358463