MarcoPolo: a digital platform for analyzing electoral discourse in Twitter

Authors

  • Manuel Alcántara Plá Autonomous University of Madrid image/svg+xml
  • Ana Ruiz Sánchez Autonomous University of Madrid image/svg+xml
  • Marisol Benito Rey Autonomous University of Madrid image/svg+xml
  • Vanessa Amessa García ,
  • Alejandro Martín Jimeno ,

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24197/redd.1.2018.7-29

Keywords:

political discourse, critical discourse studies, Twitter, frames, CADS, campaigns

Abstract

Objectivity, reliability and validity are basic requirements of any scientific research. Studies of digital discourse analysis should take it into account, especially in areas with high social impact such as the analysis of political discourse. In this article, we introduce MarcoPolo, a tool implemented to comply with these requirements, respecting the licensing restrictions of the corpus and making research accessible to a more general public. It allows us to browse through the corpus using more than 10,000 graphics. They represent the lexical uses on Twitter of the five most voted parties in Spain and their candidates between October 2015 and June 2016. We describe the design of this platform, how it works, and some examples of its functionality for researchers of the digital discourse.

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Published

2018-11-22

Issue

No. 1 (2018)

Section

Artículos

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How to Cite

MarcoPolo: a digital platform for analyzing electoral discourse in Twitter. (2018). Revista De Estudios Del Discurso Digital (REDD), 1, 7-29. https://doi.org/10.24197/redd.1.2018.7-29