Thinking about Opinions: Formation, Discourse, Re-examination, and Changing Opinions in the Streaming Era
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "Contemporary Politics and Society".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2025 | Viewed by 318
Special Issue Editors
Interests: helping relations; intergroup relations; discrimination; prejudice and stereotypes; coping; individual differences; educational psychology; performance psychology; psychology of music
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Interests: contrastive cognitive linguistics in social media; meaning identification in corpus data; translation; emotion studies; LLMs
Interests: computational linguistics in social media; sentiment analysis; opinion identification; emoji prediction; offensive language identification; clickbait detection; H-7
Interests: computational linguistics in social media; sentiment analysis; offensive language identification; detection of extremism ideation in social media texts; NLP; machine and deep learning algorithms; text classification methods; natural language processing methods; neural networks; social network analysis methods; methods of statistical processing; methods of system analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is dedicated to exploring the complexities of opinions in the streaming era. Streaming platforms have become dominant sources of information, profoundly impacting how opinions are formed, expressed, and transformed. This proposal seeks to investigate the dynamics of opinion formation, discourse, re-examination, and changing within the context of the streaming era. This Special Issue aims to bring together interdisciplinary research that sheds light on these phenomena, offering insights into the intersection of media, communication, linguistics, psychology, and society.
Submissions may employ a variety of methodologies, including quantitative analyses, qualitative studies of social discourse, experimental research on opinion-formation processes, and theoretical frameworks from communication, journalism, linguistics, psychology, and society studies.
This Special Issue aims to contribute to scholarly understandings of the dynamic interplay between streaming media and opinions, offering valuable insights through synthesizing diverse perspectives and methodologies. This collection of papers will advance the knowledge in the field and stimulate further research concerning this timely and pressing topic.
Dr. Gal Harpaz
Prof. Dr. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Dr. Chaya Liebeskind
Dr. Milana Bolatbek
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- opinion formation
- discourse
- opinion expression
- opinion re-examination
- opinion change
- sentiment analysis
- opinion evaluation
- online opinions
- opinion-based group membership
- opinion polarization
- natural language processing
- machine learning
- opinion framing
- computational social science
- natural language processing
- social media
- social movements
- computational linguistics
- social network analysis
- information manipulation
- online trust
