[LOGOS] Virtual Seminar, Wed May 28, 10am -- Saying it or writing it on social media platforms: A comparison of written and audio messages on the Yellow Vests Telegram channel in Haute-Garonne

[Kevin M Esterling]

Hi Emiliano and today's presenters,

I apologize — even though Emiliano bolded/underlined the time of today's talk, I didn't notice until now that the talk moved to this morning. Unfortunately, my morning is packed with chair-related meetings back-to-back so I can't make it today. I really apologize about that...

Kevin


Kevin M. Esterling (he/him)
Chair of Political Science and Professor of Public Policy
Director, Laboratory for Technology, Communication and Democracy  (TeCD-Lab<https://tecd-lab.ucr.edu/>)
University of California Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521 USA
+1-951-827-5591
https://profiles.ucr.edu/kevin.esterling

The TeCD-Lab | Prytaneum<https://tecd-lab.ucr.edu/prytaneum>
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Subject: [LOGOS] Virtual Seminar, Wed May 28, 10am -- Saying it or writing it on social media platforms: A comparison of written and audio messages on the Yellow Vests Telegram channel in Haute-Garonne

Hi Everyone,

The next LOGOS meetup will take place on Wednesday (May 28) at 10am PDT.

We will host a virtual seminar by Brigitte Sebbah and Pierre Ratinaud (from Toulouse Paul Sabatier and Jean Jaurès Universities) on Zoom. Please see details below.

Cheers,
Emiliano

ZOOM
https://ucr.zoom.us/j/92699528206?pwd=oo5ujmYE79Wqywca0CaaQBd1WAhUFz.1
(Meeting ID: 926 9952 8206, Passcode: 076472)

TITLE
Saying it or writing it on social media platforms: A comparison of written and audio messages on the Yellow Vests Telegram channel in Haute-Garonne

ABSTRACT
Those involved in the Yellow Vests movement have used numerous communication channels, most of which come under the heading of socio-numerical networks (Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp...). We gained access to the Telegram feed of the Haute-Garonne yellow vests and set about analyzing the discussions held there. Initially, we looked at the 50,000 written messages, seeking to determine the different themes addressed and their temporalities of expression based on an analysis with the Reinert method (Sebbah & Ratinaud, 2023) in the IRaMuTeQ software (Ratinaud, 2020). The availability of the Whisper model (Radfort & al., 2022), which enables the automatic transcription of oral discourse, also enabled us to analyze the 2201 audio messages present on the discussion threads. After highlighting some of the limitations of the automatic transcription produced by Whisper, we will focus on the differences and similarities between text and audio messages. Our first remarks will concern the statistics associated with these corpora (average message size, word frequencies, etc.), then we'll compare the preferred themes and their chronology.  This experience of analyzing audio messages enables us to describe an approach which, despite its limitations, should help to broaden the practice of analyzing socio-numerical networks and the media in general, by simplifying and amplifying the use of textual statistics to analyze the discourse of radio, television and the countless videos put online every day.

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