The architecture of partisan debates: The online controversy on the no-deal Brexit.

ABSTRACT: We propose a framework to analyse partisan debates that involves extracting, classifying and exploring the latent argumentation structure and dynamics of online societal controversies. In this paper, the focus is placed on causal arguments, and the proposed framework is applied to the Twitter debate on the consequences of a hard Brexit scenario. Regular expressions based on causative verbs, structural topic modelling, and dynamic time warping techniques were used to identify partisan faction arguments, as well as their relations, and to infer agenda-setting dynamics. The results highlight that the arguments employed by partisan factions are mostly constructed around constellations of effect-classes based on polarised verb groups. These constellations show that the no-deal debate hinges on

SUBMITTER: Santagiustina CRMA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9246126 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature