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A Wordcount Approach to Assessing the Moral Color of Old & New Media John Voiklis DIMACS Workshop April 10, 2014 DIMACS Center Rutgers University

It ain’t in the word counts; it’s in the dictionary Counting words appears to suffice for... ...detecting… ...personality traits [1] ...deception [2] , etc. ...predicting... ...future mental health [3] ...relationship stability [4] , etc. ...comparable results to more sophisticated (lexical) methods [5] . How? A dictionary derived from a domain-relevant theory does all of the work of detection/prediction in each case.

Developing a dictionary from Moral Foundations Theory

The moral color of television

Conservative complaints about TV bias might be right

Social media as data about behavior & as behavior Social media can serve both as data & as laboratory. In either case its usefulness derives from social (psychological) theory. As data , social media helps in testing social (psychological) theories by recording the unfolding of social interactions. eg., does TV exert a cumulative influence on viewers [7] ? As behavior : social media requires social (psychological) theories for making sense of those unfolding interactions. Does a post , a like , an un/friending , etc. constitute... ● an assertion of values, ● a value judgement of another’s behavior, or ● an attempt to regulate that behavior?

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A Wordcount Approach to Assessing the Moral Color of Old & New - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

A Wordcount Approach to Assessing the Moral Color of Old & New Media John Voiklis DIMACS Workshop April 10, 2014 DIMACS Center Rutgers University It aint in the word counts; its in the dictionary Counting words appears to suffice

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A Wordcount Approach to Assessing the Moral Color of Old & New - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

A Wordcount Approach to Assessing the Moral Color of Old & New Media John Voiklis DIMACS Workshop April 10, 2014 DIMACS Center Rutgers University It aint in the word counts; its in the dictionary Counting words appears to suffice

1 Another D&amp;C Approach, cont. Another D&amp;C Approach, cont. Moral 1: Moral 3:

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Addressing Moral Distress in What is Moral Distress? Why do we Care? Caregiving at the End

COLOR (or colour) Color Perception Visible color Gamut RGB color Gamut Pantone color Gamut

Preliminaries Counter-examples to the color-based approach A two-stage approach Discussion

1 The Hum an Eye The Hum an Eye The eye: The center of the retina is a densely packed region

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Color and Icons SWEN-444 Color Topics Color perception Using color in interaction design

Moral Considerability Morally considerable Obligations regarding or with respect to

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together, the entire spectrum of color is absorbed, and were left with black. Primaries: Red,

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