Using Bibliometric and Social Media Analyses to Explore the “Echo Chamber” Hypothesis

Goldie, David; Linick, Matthew; Jabbar, Huriya; Lubienski, Christopher

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“…We know a handful of academics have been highly successful in engaging through new media. Some have tens of thousands of followers on Twitter, making a point to communicate with a broader audience of non-experts on issues pertaining to their own research, or that of their associates (Goldie et al, 2014;Petrilli, 2014). Furthermore, a large-scale, comprehensive and on-going study of policymakers' use of evidence, based on interviews with some 200 policymakers in several key cities embracing incentivist policies, indicates that they are looking to these new media forums as a primary source of information on research findings (see .…”

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“…The media represents an important consideration. Established sources of media such as op-eds in print media and newer forms such as blogs and Twitter inform congressional aides and other policy actors (Goldie, Linick, Jabbar, & Lubienski, 2014). The considerable and concerted efforts some research organizations and policy advocates invest in media campaigns to promote a new report, for example, points to the significance of these forums.…”

Section: Educational Expertise Advocacy and Media Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

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Educational Expertise, Advocacy, and Media Influence

Malin

Lubienski

2015

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Abstract:The efforts of many advocacy organizations to advance their preferred policies despite conflicting evidence of the effectiveness of these policies raise questions about factors that shape successful policy promotion. While many may like to think that expertise on an issue in question is an essential prerequisite for influence in public policy discussions, there is a traditional disconnect between research evidence and policymaking in many fields, including education. Moreover, the efforts of many policy advocates suggest that they see advantages in other factors besides research expertise in advancing their interpretation of evidence for use in policymaking processes. We hypothesize that some of the most influential education-focused organizations are advancing their agendas by engaging media and drawing on individuals who possess substantial media acumen, yet may not possess traditionally defined educational expertise. Thus, we hypothesize that media impact is loosely coupled with educational expertise. In fact, in analyzing various indicators of expertise and media penetration, we find a weak relationship between expertise and media impact, but find significantly elevated media penetration for individuals working at a sub-sample of organizations promoting what we term "incentivist" education reforms, in spite of their generally lower levels of expertise. We find these organizations are particularly effective in engaging new media forms by going directly to their audience. We consider the policy implications in the concluding discussion. epaa aape

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Section: Educational Expertise Advocacy and Media Influencementioning

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Educational Expertise, Advocacy, and Media Influence

Malin

Lubienski

2015

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“…Second, Tweetarchivist stores circa 50,000 tweets in a .CSV text file and automatically starts a new file when this is exceeded. Finally, prevalence exists for the use of Tweetarchivist within rigorous academic research (see for example Goldie et al, 2014).…”

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Examining the existence of double jeopardy and negative double jeopardy within Twitter

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Morgan

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Purpose The theory of double jeopardy (DJ) is shown to hold across broad ranging geographies and physical product categories. However, there is very little research appertaining to the subject within an online environment. In particular, studies that investigate the presence of DJ and the contrasting view point to DJ, namely, that of negative double jeopardy (NDJ), are lacking. This study aims to contribute to this identified research gap and examines the presence of DJ and NDJ within a product category, utilising data from Twitter. Design/methodology/approach A total of 354,676 tweets are scraped from Twitter and their sentiment analysed and allocated into positive, negative and no-opinion clusters using fuzzy c-means clustering. The sentiment is then compared to the market share of brands within the beer product category to establish whether a DJ or NDJ effect is present. Findings Data reveal an NDJ effect with regards to original tweets (i.e. tweets which have not been retweeted). That is, when analysing tweets relating to brands within a defined beer category, the authors find that larger brands suffer by having an increased negativity amongst the larger proportion of tweets associated with them. Research limitations/implications The clustering approach to analyse sentiment in Twitter data brings a new direction to analysis of such sentiment. Future consideration of different numbers of clusters may further the insights this form of analysis can bring to the DJ/NDJ phenomenon. Managerial implications discuss the uncovered practitioner’s paradox of NDJ and strategies for dealing with DJ and NDJ effects. Originality/value This study is the first to explore the presence of DJ and NDJ through the utilisation of sentiment analysis-derived data and fuzzy clustering. DJ and NDJ are under-explored constructs in the online environment. Typically, past research examines DJ and NDJ in separate and detached fashions. Thus, the study is of theoretical value because it outlines boundaries to the DJ and NDJ conditions. Second, this research is the first study to analyse the sentiment of consumer-authored tweets to explore DJ and NDJ effects. Finally, the current study offers valuable insight into the DJ and NDJ effects for practicing marketing managers.

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“…Beyond simply providing information to the public about policy questions, the news media also plays an important role in shaping the extent to which a phenomenon is understood as a public problem and how members of the public view the policy interventions that are proposed as solutions (Gabriel & Lester, 2013;Haas & Fischman, 2010;McCombs, 2004;Moses & Saenz, 2008, Saenz & Moses, 2010Shoemaker & Reese, 2013). Many newspaper reporters and intermediary actors quoted in news media articles-think tank spokespeople, philanthropists, education celebrities, and research firm representatives often frame their assessments of education reform around the stories of helpless public school children (Goldie, Linick, Jabbar, & Lubienski, 2014). A central theme of many of these stories is the ineffective teacher, who is often portrayed as the villain hindering efforts at education reform (Gabriel & Lester, 2013).…”

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2017

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Over the past five years, the laws governing teachers' employment have been at the center of legal and political conflicts in state courts and elections across the United States. Vergara v. California challenged five California state statutes that provide employment protections for teachers. Drawing on the theory of political spectacle, we conducted a media content analysis of 42 print news media articles published prior to the court's decision in June 2014. Two aspects of political spectacle, the use of metaphor and the illusion of rationality were the most salient and deployed in ways that were more closely aligned with the student plaintiffs' claims than the statutes' defenders. We conclude by highlighting how the framing of these and other similar stories may shape subsequent debates about public education in the United States.

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Using Bibliometric and Social Media Analyses to Explore the “Echo Chamber” Hypothesis

Cited by 74 publications

References 22 publications

Educational Expertise, Advocacy, and Media Influence

Educational Expertise, Advocacy, and Media Influence

Examining the existence of double jeopardy and negative double jeopardy within Twitter

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