A Modal View on Polder Politics

To get a better understanding of the influence of the media on current political events, researchers in Communication Science have recently reported on several case studies, in which they analyse certain patterns in newspaper articles, such as internal disagreement or criticism within a political party. In this paper we explain how Hybrid Logic can be used as a query language in such an analysis, and show that we can use existing model checkers to reproduce results of a recently published case study about the Dutch election campaign in 2002. 1

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: BIRTHDAY
• Authors: Wouter van Atteveldt, Stefan Schlobach
• Keywords: Applied Computing, Better Understanding, BIRTHDAY 2005, Current Political Events, Dutch Election Campaign