Three Public Spheres
Unfolding the controversy we are in this banner interested in investigating how a variety of words and concepts have different weight or scale in different publics. We talk about publics because actors appearing on the web reflect an active engagement with the issue. Using the techniques of web mapping where we are able to carve out a corpus of websites we now want to enter different spheres in our creation of three corpuses for a comparative analysis. It is important to stress that even though we represent these as three public spheres on an overall level we know that each sphere is divided into multiple publics who are affected by the issue in various ways.
We have tried out different search strategies on different platforms: google.com, webofknowledge.com, news.google.com and google.com /blogsearch. Searching for the Paleo Diet on a the more scientific platform which webofknowledgde.com represents we did not find enough dedication to create a sufficient corpus though. This is why we have focused on the other three spheres. |
By looking closer into three different public spheres: web-, news-, and blogosphere we wish to get an insight in what is at stake in the different spheres. We invite you to take a closer look at how we chosoe the keywords with us here. Comparing the three spheres we uncover how the concerns in the three spheres differ from each other. Intrigued? Take a look at our Relative Comparison of the Spheres.
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