Back in 2013, I analyzed President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address after the contentious 2012 election campaign. I copied the transcript for his address and ran it through a word cloud generator (at the time, Wordle) to see what words he used more, and thus what ideas he emphasized in his speech. In…
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Analyzing Obama’s 2013 SOTUS
Back after the election was determined, I used the tag cloud generator Wordle.net to analyze Barack Obama’s acceptance speech. Just to follow-up, I decided that the same type of analysis would be usefully applied to Obama’s most recent big speech: his 2013 State of the Union Speech (SOTUS, as we now say in this Twitter,…
What’s the Impact of Political Memes?
This political season has been fraught with them: political memes. Pictures and videos combined with political messages to comment on and/or parody some aspect of the various campaigns engulfing various parts of the nation. From “binders full of women” to “the 47%”, people have been using social media and the phenomenon of Internet memes to…
