Scaling Up Qualitative Research Methods with Natural Language Processing Tools: The Case-Study of Colombia’s 2018 Presidential Election on Twitter
Traditional qualitative methods have the capacity to create rich and nuanced understandings of participants’ lived experiences, but this richness in understanding has often been at the expense of scale. For instance, Mason (2010) completed an empirical analysis of the...
Teoría y práctica de las redes culturales
Las redes culturales están por todos lados. Allá donde hay seres humanos hay redes culturales. Sin embargo, no siempre somos conscientes de su presencia en nuestras vidas ni del papel que juegan en nuestro desarrollo personal, en la infraestructura física y social de...
La red social subyacente a los primeros tomos del Catálogo Monumental de España. Análisis de la correspondencia de Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez de 1894 a 1902
Este artículo constituye un acercamiento a los procesos de producción de los dos primeros tomos del Catálogo Monumental de España escritos por Manuel Gómez Moreno. Mediante el estudio de la correspondencia personal del historiador se creó y analizó la red social que...
Una metodología para modelar fenómenos culturales latentes: interés público en la red Razón Pública
Este artículo amplía el horizonte de análisis en el campo de las redes culturales, al proponer una metodología basada en datos para modelar fenómenos culturales latentes. A modo de ilustración, se aplicó el diseño metodológico en un estudio sobre los temas de interés...
The cohesion of National and Cultural networks during periods of stress
Human beings tend to organize themselves in groups. These groups need to be robust to enable effective cooperation among individuals. According to some researchers (Ostrom, 1990; Suárez et al., 2011), a collective group identity based on shared cultural symbols, a...
A World Interrupted
Interruptions are physical events that carry with them metaphysical consequences. They imply stopping something that is unfinished for an unlimited period of time or forever. Since big interruptions are usually the heralds of irrupting novelty, nothing guarantees that...
Analysis of the Principled AI Framework’s Constraints in Becoming a Methodological Reference for Trustworthy AI Design
There exists an increasing concern among practitioners, academics, and researchers regarding biased decisions while using artificial intelligence, specifically machine learning, in order to arrive at a given set of possible decisions. Some countries like the United...
I Tag, You Tag: the Role of Tagging in the Formation of Topic-based Communities of Video Game Channels in YouTube (2016)
This article proposes to detect topic-based communities by analyzing the language that YouTube creators use to tag their channels. We downloaded a set of tags of YouTube video game-related channels using the most popular video game titles of 2016 as queries. We...