Authors
Mark Alfano, Scott Cunningham, Wouter Meulemans, Ignaz Rutter, Max Sondag, Bettina Speckmann, Emily Sullivan
Publication date
2018/10/29
Conference
2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science)
Pages
320-321
Publisher
IEEE
Description
This abstract describes how tools from network analysis and visualization can successfully support the study of philosophical questions in social epistemology. We introduce a particular network structure, namely the (m, k)-observer. We argue for its epistemic value and show that such observers are extremely rare in social media discussions of controversial topics. Our specific use case concerns a discussion of vaccine safety on Twitter.
Total citations
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