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Web Controversy Analysis

Web controversy analysis studies scientific, technical, and public controversies through the traces they leave online—hyperlink networks, search-engine results, and social-media activity. Building on the controversy-mapping tradition but reworking it as a web-native digital method, it follows Tommaso Venturini's call to 'build on faults' and Noortje Marres's argument for controversy analysis as a digital method, using crawling and co-link analysis to reveal how positions in a dispute are connected, opposed, and arranged across the web.

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Web-Based Controversy Analysis
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / science-technology-studies
  • Venturini, T. (2012). Building on faults: how to represent controversies with digital methods. Public Understanding of Science, 21(7), 796-812. · DOI 10.1177/0963662510387558
  • Marres, N. (2015). Why map issues? On controversy analysis as a digital method. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 40(5), 655-686. · DOI 10.1177/0162243915574602
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Same method familyActor-Network Theory Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyControversy Mappingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyDigital Methodsmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyIssue Mappingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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