Early warning signals of abrupt changes in social opinion by mining online discussion forums
The ability to conduct Social sensing to measure dissent in a democratic country is important as it allows governments to improve in areas they are currently lacking. In this paper, we study the theory of critical transitions and its application to major events in sociopolitical systems (such as e...
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| author | Pong, Jonathan Weijie |
| author2 | Cheong Siew Ann |
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| description | The ability to conduct Social sensing to measure dissent in a democratic country is important as it allows governments to improve in areas they are currently lacking. In this paper, we study the theory of critical
transitions and its application to major events in sociopolitical systems (such as elections). By considering a specific social opinion as a phase in a sociopolitical system and a differing opinion as another phase, then the
change of one opinion to another is a critical transition. Therefore, we can use the precursory critical slowing down as an early warning signal to an abrupt change in social opinion. To detect the transition and its
associated critical slowing down, we mine online discussion forums as a proxy to the sociopolitical system as a whole. In this thesis, we prove the existence of critical slowing down and critical transitions within online
discussion forums. Consequently, highlighting the ability to conduct Social sensing via detecting these critical slowing downs. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/754542023-02-28T23:12:50Z Early warning signals of abrupt changes in social opinion by mining online discussion forums Pong, Jonathan Weijie Cheong Siew Ann School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences DRNTU::Science::Physics The ability to conduct Social sensing to measure dissent in a democratic country is important as it allows governments to improve in areas they are currently lacking. In this paper, we study the theory of critical transitions and its application to major events in sociopolitical systems (such as elections). By considering a specific social opinion as a phase in a sociopolitical system and a differing opinion as another phase, then the change of one opinion to another is a critical transition. Therefore, we can use the precursory critical slowing down as an early warning signal to an abrupt change in social opinion. To detect the transition and its associated critical slowing down, we mine online discussion forums as a proxy to the sociopolitical system as a whole. In this thesis, we prove the existence of critical slowing down and critical transitions within online discussion forums. Consequently, highlighting the ability to conduct Social sensing via detecting these critical slowing downs. Bachelor of Science in Physics 2018-05-31T06:33:55Z 2018-05-31T06:33:55Z 2018 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/75454 en 65 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Science::Physics Pong, Jonathan Weijie Early warning signals of abrupt changes in social opinion by mining online discussion forums |
| title | Early warning signals of abrupt changes in social opinion by mining online discussion forums |
| title_full | Early warning signals of abrupt changes in social opinion by mining online discussion forums |
| title_fullStr | Early warning signals of abrupt changes in social opinion by mining online discussion forums |
| title_full_unstemmed | Early warning signals of abrupt changes in social opinion by mining online discussion forums |
| title_short | Early warning signals of abrupt changes in social opinion by mining online discussion forums |
| title_sort | early warning signals of abrupt changes in social opinion by mining online discussion forums |
| topic | DRNTU::Science::Physics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/75454 |
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