Imitation Games and Political Discourse

Imitation Games and Political Discourse

In this article, I examine the possibility of using TURING's concept of "imitation games" to analyze political discourse. This poses the theoretical question of identity matching. It also poses a methodological question: Is it possible to distinguish, using only internal criteria, the...

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Main Author: Francisco Gutierrez Sanin
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: FQS 2001-02-01
Series:Forum: Qualitative Social Research
Subjects:
Turing Test
political discourse
classification systems
thought experiment
Online Access:http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/971
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spelling doaj-d4ffa2f1a8f24a3dbb3befdd9a81f7002020-11-24T22:26:29ZdeuFQS Forum: Qualitative Social Research1438-56272001-02-0121958Imitation Games and Political DiscourseFrancisco Gutierrez Sanin0Universidad Nacional de ColombiaIn this article, I examine the possibility of using TURING's concept of "imitation games" to analyze political discourse. This poses the theoretical question of identity matching. It also poses a methodological question: Is it possible to distinguish, using only internal criteria, the political discourse of political actors that belong to two distinct categories? The effort to answer these theoretical and methodological questions highlights important common motives in quantitative and qualitative research. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0101103http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/971Turing Testpolitical discourseclassification systemsthought experiment
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author Francisco Gutierrez Sanin
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Imitation Games and Political Discourse
Forum: Qualitative Social Research
Turing Test
political discourse
classification systems
thought experiment
author_facet Francisco Gutierrez Sanin
author_sort Francisco Gutierrez Sanin
title Imitation Games and Political Discourse
title_short Imitation Games and Political Discourse
title_full Imitation Games and Political Discourse
title_fullStr Imitation Games and Political Discourse
title_full_unstemmed Imitation Games and Political Discourse
title_sort imitation games and political discourse
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series Forum: Qualitative Social Research
issn 1438-5627
publishDate 2001-02-01
description In this article, I examine the possibility of using TURING's concept of "imitation games" to analyze political discourse. This poses the theoretical question of identity matching. It also poses a methodological question: Is it possible to distinguish, using only internal criteria, the political discourse of political actors that belong to two distinct categories? The effort to answer these theoretical and methodological questions highlights important common motives in quantitative and qualitative research. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0101103
topic Turing Test
political discourse
classification systems
thought experiment
url http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/971
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