Social Media in Governance and policy modeling

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Social Media in Governance and policy modeling

• Buzz
• Social media contain expressions of opinions of
  everyman, made informally and unstructured
• Tracking and analysing the buzz provides a tool
  for policy and decision makers (example)
• Stakeholders governments, policy makers,
  politicians, media
• Current status
• Predominantly applied in the commercial domain
• Based on online visibility (multilingual) in
  blogs, fora, news trends and visibility at the
  national, regional and global level
• Sentiment analysis
• Issues for research
• Quality of input, unit of classification
• Adaptation domain ontology, fitting policy models
• Cost effectiveness (apply accross domains and
  accross languages)
• Authority

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• www.buzztrend.eu
• robbert.fisher_at_buzztrend.eu

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Does measuring social media provide reliable
results?
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Second dimension comparison of topics