Social network-epistemology

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 e...

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Published in2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science) pp. 320 - 321
Main Authors Alfano, M., Cunningham, S., Meulemans, W., Rutter, I., Sondag, M., Speckmann, B., Sullivan, E.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2018
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Observers
Philosophical considerations
Twitter
Vaccines
Visualization
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Summary: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.
DOI:10.1109/eScience.2018.00073