To find out who is talking to whom in these comments, you might look at the work by Anatoliy Gruzd that derives the social networks from threaded conversations. His technique uses references within the text to do more than just follow sequences of posts. See, http://anatoliygruzd.com/home/?page_id=27 and/or http://textanalytics.net/ He recently presented at IR 10 on analyzing blog comments. /Caroline ---- Original message ----
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 06:26:03 -0500 From: Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Previous Research on YouTube Comments? To: Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt@gmail.com> Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
At QDAP, in collaboration with personnel at the Smithsonian, we are using Context Miner (http://contextminer.com/index.php) to harvest comments about climate change videos on YouTube for classification classification using the Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT - http://pcat.qdap.net/).
It turns out these two free software pieces work well together, but, we are having to make adaptations to better leverage the meta data in the manual annotation process. Decontextualized comments from YouTube are very tough to code without following a complete thread though start to finish.
It seems, in this early stage of the research, that one must be fully immersed in the cross-references between commenters to make any sense of it at all.
Do list members have thoughts on this? Our friends at the Smithsonian are interested in finding out what, if anything, contributes to a 'better' or 'worse' online discussion about the future of the earth. Should we ever expect serious deliberation in such a space?
~Stu
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt@gmail.com> wrote:
To anyone that can provide sources,
I am looking for any previous work analyzing the YouTube commenting system, or research on comments in a similar online space where the commenting system is not the primary function of the space (eg., how YouTube is videos
comments). Any help is appreciated!
Thanks, Alex
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