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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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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Imitation Games and Political Discourse |
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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.
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Turing Test political discourse classification systems thought experiment |
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