LSE: Impact of Social Sciences – Algorithms, Accountability, and Political Emotion: on the cultural assumptions underpinning sentiment analysis.
July 21, 2016
5:25 p.m.
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/07/20/algorithms-accounta... Sentiment analysis is an increasingly popular metric for news and social media platforms. Alison Powell reflects here on the implications of sentiment analysis and its potential connection with the rise and intensification of emotion-driven politics. The data inputted to ‘train’ algorithms on sentiment analysis has enormous impact and is imbued with assumptions about the world. What mechanisms might make these algorithms more accountable? (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))
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