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Creating a More Transparent Internet

Creating a More Transparent Internet

Creating a More Transparent Internet

Piek Vossen, VU University Amsterdam
Antske Fokkens, VU University Amsterdam
April 2022
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    On social media, new forms of communication arise rapidly, many of which are intense, dispersed, and create new communities at a global scale. Such communities can act as distinct information bubbles with their own perspective on the world, and it is difficult for people to find and monitor all these perspectives and relate the different claims made. Within this digital jungle of perspectives on truth, it is difficult to make informed decisions on important things like vaccinations, democracy, and climate change. Understanding and modeling this phenomenon in its full complexity requires an interdisciplinary approach, utilizing the ample data provided by digital communication to offer new insights and opportunities. This interdisciplinary book gives a comprehensive view on social media communication, the different forms it takes, the impact and the technology used to mine it, and defines the roadmap to a more transparent Web.

    • Discusses ideas of the perspective web from different disciplines, including computational linguistics, linguistics, social sciences, media studies, the Semantic Web, and internet technology
    • Reflects on social media from different disciplinary angles, providing a comprehensive and complete overview
    • Describes the state-of-the-art in a broad variety of disciplines to analyze and model communication in social media
    • Discusses the role of perspectives on the web and how they affect transparency of information and knowledge

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    'Misinformation and disinformation on the web are problems we face as a society, and this book is for anyone looking for hope for the future! Well-regarded authors in various disciplines contribute enjoyable and informed chapters on theoretical accounts of perspectives and how they work, practical methods for discovering and measuring bias, and computational procedures for identifying and fixing perspectives at web scale with consistent and reliable results.' Eduard Hovy, Carnegie Mellon University

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    April 2022
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    9781108624473
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    Table of Contents

    • 1. Introducing the Perspective Web P. Vossen and A. Fokkens
    • Part I. Theoretical Background:
    • 2. Perspectives from a social psychological and communication scientific perspective C Beukeboom and I Vermeulen
    • 3. Computational linguistics for subjectivity P Nakov
    • Part II. Social Impact:
    • 4. Perspectives in a social context: The role of communication I Vermeulen, C Beukeboom
    • 5. Linguistic perspective in written discourse K van Krieken and J Sanders
    • 6. The meso level: Perspectives in a social context R Neo
    • 7. The macro level: Perspectives embedded in society, culture and technology H Vu
    • Part III. Mediating Perspectives:
    • 8. The mediation of online information J Noordegraaf and T Poell
    • 9. The source and its encoding. Reflections on metadata in digitized and born-digital media collections E Hoyt
    • 10. Knowledge-making on techno-commercial platforms: The example of facebook J Anderson Schwarz
    • 11. Content, form and reception: Perspectives from digital media data Christina Neumayer
    • 12. Quality and perspectives D Ceolin, J Noordegraaf and L Aroyo
    • 13. Mining and modelling perspectives P. Vossen and A. Fokkens
    • 14. Natural language processing tasks for the extraction of perspectives C van Son, R Morante and P Vossen
    • 15. Towards automatic discovery of diverse perspectives S. Chen, D. Khashabi and D. Roth
    • 16. Formal representation and extraction of perspectives A Gangemi and V Presutti
    • 17. The user perspective in professional information search S Verberne
    • 18. Harvesting perspectives in social media T Caselli and M Nissim
    • 19. GRaSP: A model for the perspective web P. Vossen and A. Fokkens.
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      Contributors
    • Web P. Vossen, A. Fokkens, C Beukeboom, I Vermeulen, P Nakov, K van Krieken, J Sanders, R Neo, H Vu, J Noordegraaf, T Poell, E Hoyt, J Anderson Schwarz, Christina Neumayer, D Ceolin, L Aroyo, C van Son, R Morante, P Vossen, S. Chen, D. Khashabi, D. Roth, A Gangemi, V Presutti, S Verberne, T Caselli, M Nissim