Imitation Games and Political Discourse

Authors

  • Francisco Gutierrez Sanin Universidad Nacional de Colombia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-2.1.971

Keywords:

Turing Test, political discourse, classification systems, thought experiment

Abstract

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

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Author Biography

Francisco Gutierrez Sanin, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Francisco GUTIERREZ, presently researcher at the Instituto de Estudios Politicos y Relaciones Internacionales of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Disciplines: Anthropology (pregrad) and political science (master and PhD). Main research fields: Violence, Political discourse, Political system, Comparative politics, Research methods.

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Published

2001-02-28

How to Cite

Gutierrez Sanin, F. (2001). Imitation Games and Political Discourse. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-2.1.971

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2001): Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Conjunctions and Divergences

Section

The Logic of Relating Qualitative and Quantitative Method

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Copyright (c) 2001 Francisco Gutierrez Sanin

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