This work is based on the systematically use of computer-assisted co-occurrence of key words analysis of English-language media reports. With almost 20 entries per day or over 6, 000 press reports per year, we not only characterize, for each year of Obama's first term, the overall structure to world media representation of major topics of international conflict, but also define in detail the thematic clusters of reports, 
their internal structure, their external relationships and their evolution over time. Each of the four years is treated in a separate chapter and results are summarized in the final chapter, along with anticipations concerning the future.

2009-2012 Obama's First Term, Bush's "Legacy", Arab Spring & World Jihadism

La sociologie s'appuie notamment sur l'analyse de matériaux langagiers ou textuels (entretiens d'enquête, archives écrites ou orales, dossiers de presse.). Leur exploitation appelle le recours à des logiciels spécialisés. Ce livre vise à expliciter le cadre épistémologique de l'utilisation de ces logiciels : ce qu'ils peuvent faire et comment ces méthodes peuvent être mobilisées.

Analyses textuelles en sociologie - Logiciels, méthodes, usages

Beginning with the year 2006, this series of books with L'Harmattan has successively analyzed representative samples of the English-language world press covering major national and international conflicts. Such analysis is often called "parapolitics"or the real use of power as opposed to the declared use of power. When you analyze all press reports, conspiracy theories, "fake news" and good old fashion propaganda can be quickly and easily eliminated. Here, we use the method of co-occurrence of key words in texts to form statistically consistent clusters of key words that identify texts associated with specific topics. We then graphically compare these clusters according to their centrality — "everybody's talking about it" — and density — "it's tighter, closer organized and more isolated".The method also allows you to follow these clusters and their texts over time to see if they disappear or become more central or more dense. And there are surprises at every turn. Obama and Trump, in a major instance early in their mandates, experienced almost the same unrecognized political failure. The 2016 presidential campaign started as an opposition between the Democratic establishment (the DNC) and the Republican establishment (the GOP), but that soon turned into a double match between Trump and the GOP, and between Sanders and the DNC. And the Russian, who were already there, applied leverage with the known results.

Obama leads to Trump - 2015-2017 World Media Analysis

This work is based on the systematically use of computer-assisted co-occurrence of key words analysis of English-language media reports. With almost 20 entries per day or over 6, 000 press reports per year, we not only characterize, for each year of Obama's first term, the overall structure to world media representation of major topics of international conflict, but also define in detail the thematic clusters of reports, their internal structure, their external relationships and their evolution over time. Each of the four years is treated in a separate chapter and results are summarized in the final chapter, along with anticipations concerning the future.

"Parapolitics", according to professor, diplomat and poet Peter Dale Scott, is "the real use of power" and not the superficial use of power as declared by politicians and the media. But with over 20 daily press reports on conflicts of international interest, and the computer analysis of these approximately 7, 000 reports by co-occurrence of key words, we can graphically and statistically show what were indeed the parapolitics of 2013 and what media reports hide behind the key words clusters "Islamist", "Israel", "Syria", "NSA" and "Obama".

2013 Parapolitics & World Media

Inspirées par les recherches sur le débat public développées dans le cadre Agoramétrie, des enquêtes d'un genre nouveau ont été réalisées à partir des années 1980, d'abord en France, puis dans d'autres pays d'Europe, en Russie et en Amérique centrale. Allant au-delà des explications rationnelles invoquées par les citoyens, il s'agissait d'explorer l'influence du jeu des valeurs et des symboles sur les positions qu'ils prennent lors de controverses publiques de grande ampleur.  Les bases théoriques et la méthodologie sur lesquelles reposent ces enquêtes sont avant tout décrites. Elles sont à la base de l'interprétation donnée au principal résultat obtenu.

Débat public

Beginning with the year 2006, this series of books has successively analyzed representative samples of the English-language world press covering major national and international conflits. We use the method of co-occurence of key words in texts to form statistically consistent clusters of key words that identify texts associated with specific topics. The method also allows you to follow these clusters and their texts over time to see if they disappear or become more central or more dense. There are surprises at every turn. Obama and Trump, in a major instance early in their mandates, experienced almost the same unrecognized political failure

There is a vast variety of research methodologies and methods of analysis in sociology. Indeed, "research practice" – a major constituent of "invisible colleges" or "schools of thought" – is largely defined by choices of methodology, methods and types of interpretation. The aim of this book is to study this variety in its research applications in diverse sociological specialities and to analyze what types of methods are applied and in which context, why those particular methods, and not others, are used, and what those methods produce compared to results from other methods. Examining several cross-disciplinary and cross-national projects, the authors of this volume also demonstrate how these methods and results, while closely associated, are far from being scientifically determined. Using the metaphor of a "scientific language" to encompass research methodology and its practice in a social context, the authors explain that methodological communities function much like language communities with similar problems – such as "translation" from one community to another – but also benefit from the richness and diversity language brings.

Interrelation between Type of Analysis and Type of Interpretation

If political science is the study of politics and the use of political power as it presents itself on the public scene, "parapolitics" is the study of the use of political power that is not presented on the public scene. The term seems to have been coined by Prof. Peter Dale Scott of the University of California, Berkeley, in the late 1970s. According to Scott, a former Canadian diplomat, poet and author, parapolitics is the study of the "real" use of political power, as opposed to the publicly avowed use of political power. In this work, the authors analyze world political and parapolitical headlines of 2006. This data set or corpus of texts consists of the "Timeline" section of each issue of the electronic journal, " Intelligence "

World politics & "parapolitics 2006" : Computer-Assisted Text Analysis of International Media Headlines - Edition en anglais

Analyse textuelle des médias de 2019 utilise la méthode d'analyse textuelle par co-occurrences de mots-clés, qui est appliquée à l'analyse d'une vaste base de données de textes provenant de grands médias portant sur l'international. Plusieurs milliers de textes de médias de 2019, classés par mois, sont analysés avec notre méthode spécifique, afin de dégager les thèmes ou clusters cohérents, ainsi que les exemples les plus révélateurs. Au terme de chaque chapitre, un diagramme stratégique montre de quelle manière ces clusters se sont articulés, et permet de suivre l'évolution de certains thèmes au cours de l'année, tels que les Gilets jaunes, la Chine, l'Iran et Trump.

Analyse textuelle des médias de 2019 ; les gilets jaunes, la Chine, l'Iran & Trump

À la demande de Larousse pour sa collection « Textes essentiels », j'ai formé une équipe de vingt-trois sociologues, dont deux membres de l'Institut, pour faire le livre La Sociologie sur la contribution à la sociologie de trente-huit grands sociologues que nous avons sélectionnés. Le présent livre comprend uniquement les textes de moi et mes coauteurs sur ces « grands sociologues », à l'exclusion des textes classiques cités de ces derniers. À part la conversion des notes de bas de page en notes de fin de chapitre, nos contributions d'origine sont publiées ici sans aucune modification trente ans après leur publication par Larousse en 1992.

Les grands sociologues - Présenté par Bruno Péquignot

Obama leads to Trump

What happened in 2018 ? What do you remember? Analyzing over 2, 000 press reports each month can help answer that question. But even with the assistance of advanced computer programs, how do you summarize a whole year? How do you choose a succinct and meaningful title for this work? Donald Trump provided us with a clear and concice answer by declaring publicly that he was a "very stable genius". Indeed, 2018 was the year of the "very stable genius" and it's presented and analyzed here month by month, using both our computer method and our human analysis of the same set of data from a representative sampling system of international media. And Yes, the key word was "Trump".

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