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Why Do Policy Frames Change? Rhetorical Construction And Contestation Of Gay Rights In A Contested Regime, Shih-Chan Dai Sep 2021

Why Do Policy Frames Change? Rhetorical Construction And Contestation Of Gay Rights In A Contested Regime, Shih-Chan Dai

Doctoral Dissertations

The dissertation project, “Why do Policy Frames Change? Rhetorical Construction and Contestation of Gay Rights in a Contested Regime,” examines the impacts of both digitalization and local political contexts on the dynamics of policy framing and issue advocacy. By exploring the patterns of online framing across different types of social actors (pro- and anti-gay rights activists and influencers), it contributes to the fields of LGBT politics, political communication, and social movements. The findings of the second chapter show that similar to Western societies where same-sex marriage has been legalized, pro- and anti-gay rights groups in Taiwan rely on certain types …


Infoextractor – A Tool For Social Media Data Mining, Chirag Shah, Charles File Jan 2011

Infoextractor – A Tool For Social Media Data Mining, Chirag Shah, Charles File

JITP 2011: The Future of Computational Social Science

We present InfoExtractor, a web-based tool for collecting data and metadata from focused social media content. InfoExtractor then provides this data in various structured and unstructured formats for easy manipulation and analysis. The tool allows social science researchers to easily collect data for quantitative analysis, and is designed to deliver data from popular and influential social media sites in a useful and easy to access way. InfoExtractor was designed to replace traditional means of content aggregation, such as page scraping and brute- force copying.