Dialectical Obligations in Political Debate

Mining Ethos in Political Debate

Despite the fact it has been recognised since Aristotle that ethos and credibility play a critical role in many types of communication, these facts are rarely studied in linguistically oriented AI which has enjoyed such success in processing complex features as sentiment, opinion, and most recently arguments. This paper shows how a text analysis pipeline of structural and statistical approaches...

Online Political Debate: Motivating Factors and Impact on Political Engagement

Online political debate is increasing in importance, both as a real world phenomenon and as an object of scientific study. We present a survey study exploring people's motivations for engaging in online political debate and how such debate may impact their general political engagement. The survey was conducted among 90 participants of an online environment for political debate hosted by one of ...

Mandatory HPV vaccination and political debate.

political economy of china in central asia

this research is about the political economy of china in central asia. in this research the political & economic interactions affected on chinas political economy in central asia are examined. chinas goal of presence in central asia including political-security, economic and energy goals is described in one part. in another part, the trade relations between china and central asian countries ar...

Reconciling Political and Economic Goals in the Net Neutrality Debate

Reconciling Political and Economic Goals in the Net Neutrality Debate Johannes M. Bauer a & Jonathan A. Obar b c a Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media , Michigan State University , East Lansing , Michigan , USA b Faculty of Information , University of Toronto , Toronto , Ontario , Canada c Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law , Michigan State Univers...