Conceptual Mapping of Controversies
This work provides a qualitative analysis tool for researchers or journalists studying discourse in online news media, but it appears incremental as it applies existing methods to a specific domain.
The authors tackled the problem of analyzing controversies in online news media by using Formal Concept Analysis and the economics of conventions to create conceptual maps, showing how these methods can assess diversity, complexity, and bias in controversies.
With our work, we contribute towards a qualitative analysis of the discourse on controversies in online news media. For this, we employ Formal Concept Analysis and the economics of conventions to derive conceptual controversy maps. In our experiments, we analyze two maps from different news journals with methods from ordinal data science. We show how these methods can be used to assess the diversity, complexity and potential bias of controversies. In addition to that, we discuss how the diagrams of concept lattices can be used to navigate between news articles.