So What is the Matter?
Take a look at the word cloud above. What do you see?
The actors and their involvement with the Paleo diet tell us something about the character of the controversy. Here we wish to explore further what they are talking about when they talk about the Paleo Diet from an overall word and concept oriented perspective. By looking at the weighing of words and concepts emerging from a google scrape using the Lippmanian Device we wish to gain further insights to the content of the matter. We plotted in the top 50 actors of our network. Then we listed the keywords that we encountered repeatedly during our way through the web. In addition to the words representing our encounter with the Paleo Diet on the web the keyword list also reflects our own interest in the content of the controversy. Read more about how we found the keywords here. |
The offset of the investigation was to uncover which concerns exist embedded in the different actors and not just who the actors are.
So what do we see in the word cloud? Looking at the word cloud above we become aware of what issues are at stake, when looking into the Paleo Diet on the web. It is obvious that a central issue is "health". Words like science, natural and weight loss are also weighted heavily. This discovery leads us further into investigating how these terms appear in Three Public Spheres. So What is the Matter? Not an unambiguously defined object. |