Creating a More Transparent Internet
The Perspective Web

This book investigates how science can help mitigate social media's negative effects on communication and create more transparency.

Piek Vossen (Edited by), Antske Fokkens (Edited by)

9781108485760, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 5 May 2022

350 pages
23 x 15.7 x 1.9 cm, 0.57 kg

'Misinformation and disinformation on the web are problems we face as a society, and this book is for anyone looking for hope for the future! Well-regarded authors in various disciplines contribute enjoyable and informed chapters on theoretical accounts of perspectives and how they work, practical methods for discovering and measuring bias, and computational procedures for identifying and fixing perspectives at web scale with consistent and reliable results.' Eduard Hovy, Carnegie Mellon University

On social media, new forms of communication arise rapidly, many of which are intense, dispersed, and create new communities at a global scale. Such communities can act as distinct information bubbles with their own perspective on the world, and it is difficult for people to find and monitor all these perspectives and relate the different claims made. Within this digital jungle of perspectives on truth, it is difficult to make informed decisions on important things like vaccinations, democracy, and climate change. Understanding and modeling this phenomenon in its full complexity requires an interdisciplinary approach, utilizing the ample data provided by digital communication to offer new insights and opportunities. This interdisciplinary book gives a comprehensive view on social media communication, the different forms it takes, the impact and the technology used to mine it, and defines the roadmap to a more transparent Web.

1. Introducing the Perspective Web P. Vossen and A. Fokkens
Part I. Theoretical Background: 2. Perspectives from a social psychological and communication scientific perspective C Beukeboom and I Vermeulen
3. Computational linguistics for subjectivity P Nakov
Part II. Social Impact: 4. Perspectives in a social context: The role of communication I Vermeulen, C Beukeboom
5. Linguistic perspective in written discourse K van Krieken and J Sanders
6. The meso level: Perspectives in a social context R Neo
7. The macro level: Perspectives embedded in society, culture and technology H Vu
Part III. Mediating Perspectives: 8. The mediation of online information J Noordegraaf and T Poell
9. The source and its encoding. Reflections on metadata in digitized and born-digital media collections E Hoyt
10. Knowledge-making on techno-commercial platforms: The example of facebook J Anderson Schwarz
11. Content, form and reception: Perspectives from digital media data Christina Neumayer
12. Quality and perspectives D Ceolin, J Noordegraaf and L Aroyo
13. Mining and modelling perspectives P. Vossen and A. Fokkens
14. Natural language processing tasks for the extraction of perspectives C van Son, R Morante and P Vossen
15. Towards automatic discovery of diverse perspectives S. Chen, D. Khashabi and D. Roth
16. Formal representation and extraction of perspectives A Gangemi and V Presutti
17. The user perspective in professional information search S Verberne
18. Harvesting perspectives in social media T Caselli and M Nissim
19. GRaSP: A model for the perspective web P. Vossen and A. Fokkens.

Subject Areas: Computational linguistics [CFX]