POLITOSCOPE

Like political parties, which use ig data from social networks to analyse the opinions of their fellow citizens, Politoscope makes the tools of research available to citizens to analyse the speeches of presidential candidates and their communities.

Twitter has become a new media as well as a must for any group that seeks to influence public opinion in one way or another, including for some, by publishing “fake news”.

Social networks thus increase the mass of data we are immersed in every day, which tends to distract us from a thorough, long-term analysis of current events.

Campaign teams are now using the media services and social network research companies to produce analysis and trends regarding citizens’ aspirations.

These analyses are limited to a small number of users; the methodologies are mostly confidential.

The aim of Politoscope is to reverse the roles by allowing the “general public” to dive into the data generated on social networks in the run-up to presidential elections thanks to analytical tools and methods produced by research.

The ambition of this project is, on the one hand, to better contextualise politicians’ speeches over a long period of time and, on the other hand, to identify collective actions aimed at shifting the public debate over short periods of time.

TEAM

David Chavalarias (CNRS/EHESS, ISC-PIF/CAMS), responsable scientifique, data-mining, analyse de réseaux & visualisations,

Maziyar Panahi (CNRS, ISC-PIF) : responsable de l’infrastructure Big Data, chef de projet Multivac,

Noé Gaumont (CNRS/EHESS, CAMS/ISC-PIF) : analyse de réseaux & visualisations.