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Automated content analysis

December 27, 2020    Content analysis can extract valuable insights from texts, and the world is producing more texts than ever. However, the traditional method relies on humans reading and categorizing the content. That is too slow and expensive to be useful for most potential applications. This video explains the automated methods that reduce the time required from months to hours. Dr. Kyle Bahr and I have developed a computer program called the Social Licence and Controversy Detector and Analyzer (SLaCDA) based on the Natural Language Processing (NLP) approach to content analysis. The video explains how it works and shows how it can help find strategic insights from texts that previously would have taken too long to analyze. 

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Is the social licence a real thing?

November 2, 2020   

The social licence began as a metaphor with the legal licences required in mining. Then it morphed into a quantifiable management tool for obtaining and tracking the social acceptability of a company’s operations. Today, political actors have started using the term as a way to imply that their favoured policies are more legitimate than those of their opponents. As it has been dragged through the mud of politics, the term ‘social licence’ has been labelled everything from corporate PR spin to undemocratic, leftist propaganda.

This video shows the conditions under which political actors will attribute different characteristics to the social licence in order to gain an advantage over their rivals. The video is loosely based on my publication in the journal  The Extractive Industries and Society (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2020.05.022)

It’s a longer video because it includes some review the academic literature on the social licence:

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