Geoff Ford Political Science x Digital Methods

Corpus-assisted discourse analysis with audio corpora: concordancing audio

For my PhD thesis I developed a workflow to create an audio concordance that allowed ‘keywords in context’ in audio to be listened to and read. I applied this to find and analyse mentions of ‘economy’ in 1788 hours of talkback radio. Examples of economy could be read and listened to via a web application that allowed listening to much longer sections of audio for context. I also applied this data and method to analyse anti-immigrant discourse for the ‘Research-based solutions to online hate and offline consequences’ event in 2019.

Skills & Tools: Web application development; PHP; MySQL; Keyword spotting technologies.

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