Thematic Analysis of Words that Invoke Values in the Net Neutrality Debate

Fleischmann, Kenneth R.; Takayama, Yasuhiro; Cheng, An-Shou; Tomiura, Yoichi; Oard, Douglas W.; Ishita, Emi

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Title

Thematic Analysis of Words that Invoke Values in the Net Neutrality Debate

Author(s)

• Fleischmann, Kenneth R.
• Takayama, Yasuhiro
• Cheng, An-Shou
• Tomiura, Yoichi
• Oard, Douglas W.
• Ishita, Emi

Issue Date

2015-03-15

Keyword(s)

• social informatics
• information/computing ethics

Date of Ingest

2015-03-23T21:58:13Z

Abstract

This paper describes an initial analysis of the association of specific vocabulary choices with the invocation of human values in testimonies prepared for public hearings about Net neutrality in the United States. Motivation for this work comes from an interest in understanding what people value and how they express those values in writing. Related work includes research on human values from fields ranging from social psychology to advertising to human-computer interaction. First, human annotators used closed coding to identify human values in testimonies based on a prior meta-analysis of human values. Next, a “values dictionary” was automatically learned that identifies words that are strongly associated with sentences that human annotators coded as being related to specific values. Finally, an open-ended thematic analysis was conducted. The contribution of the paper is to enhance our understanding of how human values are expressed, as well as to introduce and evaluate a new automated tool for facilitating social science research.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2015 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

Conference Paper / Presentation

Language

English

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