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[Article] A Translational Analysis of News and Tweets about Nuclear Phase-Out in the After-math of the Fukushima incident

Abstract: Taking the impact of the Fukushima incident on the global discourse about nuclear energy as a case study, the present paper shows how to integrate computational linguistic methods into corpus-based discourse analysis (CDA). After an extensive literature review with regards to the related hermeneutic work, we present the corpus linguistic methods and point out […]

[Article] Japan’s 2014 General Election: Political Bots, Right-wing Internet Activism and PM Abe Shinzō’s Hidden Nationalist Agenda.

Abstract: In this article, we present results on the identification and behavioral analysis of social bots in a sample of 542,584 Tweets, collected before and after Japan’s 2014 general election. Typical forms of bot activity include massive Retweeting and repeated posting of (nearly) the same message, sometimes used in combination. We focus on the second […]

[Article] “Normalizing misogyny: hate speech and verbal abuse of female politicians on Japanese Twitter”

Abstract: Social media platforms such as Twitter have gained tremendous political importance in recent years. Moreover, being considered as platforms for organizing grass root political movements or political participation in general, this positive view has given way to more critical perspectives on the negative sides of social media, such as attempts of algorithmically manipulating public […]

ネット右翼とは何か

Schäfer, Fabian with Higuchi Naoto; Nagayoshi Kikuko; Matsutani Mitsuru; Kurahashi Kōhei; Yamaguchi Tomomi (2019): ネット右翼とは何か (Was ist die Internet-Rechte?). Tōkyō: Seikyū-sha.

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