With our work, we contribute towards a qualitative analysis of the discourse on controversies in online news media. For this, we employ Formal Concept Analysis and the economics of conventions to derive conceptual controversy maps. In our experiments, we analyze two maps from different news journals with methods from ordinal data science. We show how these methods can be used to assess the diversity, complexity and potential bias of controversies. In addition to that, we discuss how the diagrams of concept lattices can be used to navigate between news articles.
@article{arxiv.2404.18940,
title = {Conceptual Mapping of Controversies},
author = {Claude Draude and Dominik Dürrschnabel and Johannes Hirth and Viktoria Horn and Jonathan Kropf and Jörn Lamla and Gerd Stumme and Markus Uhlmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.18940},
year = {2024}
}