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      Em defesa das valências: uma réplica Translated title: In defense of sentiment analysis: a reply

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          Resumo O artigo é uma resposta sistemática e detalhadas às críticas que Luis Felipe Miguel fez em artigo recente à metodologia da análise de valência (MAV). Segundo o autor: (1) a MAV confunde emissor, receptor, pesquisador e objeto do discurso; (2) reduz drasticamente a complexidade do processo comunicativo; (3) reproduz o ideal normativo da imparcialidade jornalística; (4) está sujeita à excessiva subjetividade. Pretendo mostrar que esses argumentos arrolados por Miguel contra a MAV são, quando não equivocados, superficiais. Contra suas críticas argumento que: (1) estudos de valência focam somente o emissor, sem prejuízo para a análise; (2) reduzem complexidade como outras metodologias em ciências sociais; (3) não dependem do pressuposto da imparcialidade para serem feitos; (4) estão menos sujeitos às distorções subjetivas do que metodologias de estudo da mídia como análise de agendamento e de enquadramento, preconizadas por Miguel.

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          Abstract This article is a reply to the criticism raised by Luis Felipe Miguel in a recent piece against the use of the methodology of sentiment analysis (MSA) in media studies. According to this author, the MSA is flawed because (1) it confuses different levels of communication, chiefly emission with reception; (2) it reduces drastically the complexity of the communicative process; (3) it adopts unreflexively the normative ideal of journalistic neutrality; and (4) it is plagued with an excess of subjectivism. I intend to show that the points made by Miguel against the MSA are either equivocal or superficial. Against them I argue that the MSA (1) focuses on the content of emission but not reception, and that does not stop it from producing meaningful results; (2) reduces the complexity of its subject matter like all other scientific methodologies, and does it in a way that is appropriate to the nature of its subject matter; (3) does not depend on the premise of journalistic neutrality to be valid; and (4) is less subjected to the distortions introduced by the excess of subjective judgement calls than other concurring methodologies such as agenda setting and frame analysis, both advocated by Miguel.

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                rbcpol
                Revista Brasileira de Ciência Política
                Rev. Bras. Ciênc. Polít.
                Universidade de Brasília. Instituto de Ciência Política
                2178-4884
                April 2016
                : 0
                : 19
                : 277-298
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                [1 ] Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Brazil
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                S0103-33522016000100277
                10.1590/0103-335220161911
                5ddadf78-2955-4518-bce3-93af96dcbb62

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                POLITICAL SCIENCE

                Political science
                análise de valências,estudos de mídia,estudos eleitorais,objetividade,viés de mídia,sentiment analysis,media studies,election studies,objectivity,media bias

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