scholarly journals Is It Smart Working? An Analysis of the Public Discourse about Teleworking in Italy during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-157
Author(s):  
Luca Pareschi
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Topic Modelling ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Media ◽  
Smart Working ◽  
Automatic Text Analysis ◽  
Automatic Text ◽  
Over Time

The COVID-19 pandemic forced lockdowns in several countries, and many organisations had to introduce teleworking for their employees. While remote working is not a new thing, and was already permitted by laws, the extent to which enterprises had to redefine their process is unprecedented. Therefore, teleworking was widely discussed in national media. Newspapers are a relevant outlet for the diffusion and legitimation of schemata of interpretation, and we explored of teleworking was framed in the Italian discursive space during the first two months of the pandemic. We analysed seven national newspapers, and adopted a semi-automatic text analysis, which we performed through topic modelling. In this paper, we describe the topics that are used by newspapers to frame teleworking, the different use of these topics performed by different newspapers, the trend of topics over time, and we discuss the institutionalisation of the issue of teleworking.

scholarly journals The Right to Survival in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiyoung Song
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Confucian Tradition ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
North Korean Defectors ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Over Time

AbstractFor the past decade, the author has examined North Korean primary public documents and concludes that there have been changes of identities and ideas in the public discourse of human rights in the DPRK: from strong post-colonialism to Marxism-Leninism, from there to the creation of Juche as the state ideology and finally 'our style' socialism. This paper explains the background to Kim Jong Il's 'our style' human rights in North Korea: his broader framework, 'our style' socialism, with its two supporting ideational mechanisms, named 'virtuous politics' and 'military-first politics'. It analyses how some of these characteristics have disappeared while others have been reinforced over time. Marxism has significantly withered away since the end of the Cold War, and communism was finally deleted from the latest 2009 amended Socialist Constitution, whereas the concept of sovereignty has been strengthened and the language of duties has been actively employed by the authority almost as a relapse to the feudal Confucian tradition. The paper also includes some first-hand accounts from North Korean defectors interviewed in South Korea in October–December 2008. They show the perception of ordinary North Koreans on the ideas of human rights.

Proactive screening for depression through metaphorical and automatic text analysis

2012 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yair Neuman ◽  
Yohai Cohen ◽  
Dan Assaf ◽  
Gabbi Kedma
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Automatic Text Analysis ◽  
Automatic Text

Studying Political Decision Making With Automatic Text Analysis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wouter van Atteveldt ◽  
Kasper Welbers ◽  
Mariken van der Velden
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Numerical Representation ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Text Collections ◽  
Textual Data ◽  
Automatic Text Analysis ◽  
Political Decision Making ◽  
Automatic Text

Analyzing political text can answer many pressing questions in political science, from understanding political ideology to mapping the effects of censorship in authoritarian states. This makes the study of political text and speech an important part of the political science methodological toolbox. The confluence of increasing availability of large digital text collections, plentiful computational power, and methodological innovations has led to many researchers adopting techniques of automatic text analysis for coding and analyzing textual data. In what is sometimes termed the “text as data” approach, texts are converted to a numerical representation, and various techniques such as dictionary analysis, automatic scaling, topic modeling, and machine learning are used to find patterns in and test hypotheses on these data. These methods all make certain assumptions and need to be validated to assess their fitness for any particular task and domain.

Automatic Text Analysis

Science ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 168 (3929) ◽  
pp. 335-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Salton
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Automatic Text Analysis ◽  
Automatic Text
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