Pursing power in Arabic on-line discussion forums

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Citation: Marc Tomlinson and David B. Bracewell and Mary Draper and Zewar Almissour and Ying Shi and Jeremy Bensley (2012) Pursing power in Arabic on-line discussion forums. LREC (RSS)
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Download: http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/1036 Paper.pdf
Tagged: Computer Science (RSS) online argumentation (RSS), Arabic (RSS), power (RSS), social relationships (RSS), computational linguistics (RSS)

Summary

The authors analyzed an Arabic discussion forum called WikiTalk, annotating attributes that they say relate to "ten psychologically motivated social acts" derived from from Keltner et al. (2008)

Social Acts

  1. Establish Credibility
  2. Challenge Credibility
  3. Establish Solidarity
  4. Managerial Influence
  5. Group Affordance
  6. Agreement
  7. Disagreement
  8. Task Conflict
  9. Relationships Conflict
  10. Leadership Avoidance

Attributes for each social attribute

(directly quoted from paper, in the main)

Establish Credibility

  1. Explicit statements of authority: Asserting a degree or title
  2. Motivation: Providing motivation to the group for an idea or action
  3. Providing answers: Answering questions poised by group members.
  4. Providing cited information: Statement made by an individual citing source information.
  5. Justifying opinion: Providing justification of a stated opinion.

Challenge Credibility

  1. aggressive/accusing questions: question target‘s credential directly.
  2. gossiping: question target‘s credential behind his back, with no direct evidence.
  3. demands to prove credibility:ask for hard facts/proof.
  4. bait and switch: first agree then point out flaws or

ways to improve.

Establish Solidarity

  1. Introduction to group: Speaker identifies him/herself during first time in a group.
  2. Establish bona fides: Speaker establishes good faith with group by stating good intentions or offering help.
  3. In group jargon: Speaker uses group-specific words orhrases that have special meanings.
  4. Disclose personal data: Speaker gives personal information about him/herself to the rest of the group.
  5. Disclose beliefs: Speaker shares his/her belief aboutomething in order to establish solidarity with the restf the group
  6. Ask for a favor: Speaker asks other members of theroup to help him/her out.
  7. Address fallout/conflict: Speaker addresses a past,resent, or potential future conflict within the groupnd states his/her intention to move beyond it (makingeace).
  8. Identify allies: Speaker identifies an ally common toroup members; ally may be inside (must be marginalized) or outside the group.
  9. Identify opponents: Speaker identifies an opponentommon to group members; opponent may be insider outside the group.

Managerial Influence

  1. goal: goal to be accomplished by the person acquiring power.
  2. reasoning with facts: using facts to sway an argument.
  3. flattery and good will: using flattery to sway an argument.
  4. coalition: mobilization of other people.
  5. bargaining: negotiation through exchange of benefits.
  6. assertiveness: direct and forceful commands.
  7. higher authority: support from higher authority in the organization.
  8. rewards: offering rewards to individuals.
  9. punishment: threatening to punish another individual.

Group Affordance

  1. honorable titles: Speaker uses an honorable title to refer to an individual.
  2. respectful sentiments: Speaker uses language containing respectful words.
  3. yielding to another person out of respect: Speakers yields to another individual.
  4. Order Confirmation: Speaker agrees to do something for target

Agreement

  1. Agreement: Speaker uses language explicitly agreeing with another individual.

Disagreement

  1. Disagreement: Speaker uses language explicitly disagreeing with another individual.

Task Conflict

  1. Task Conflict: Speaker uses language indicating conflict with another individual over task details.

Relationships Conflict

  1. Relationship Conflict: Speaker uses language indicating conflict with another individual over personal details.

Leadership Avoidance

  1. Order negation: explicitly avoid making a decision.

References

Theory

Corpora & NLP

See also

Wikipedia

Theoretical and Practical Relevance

  • Provides a corpus in Arabic for "identifying individuals pursuing power within on-line forums"
  • Relevant for cross-cultural studies -- see Figure 3 which points in this direction
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