Logics of Justification in Online Community: Example of Caresharing in Russia

Student: Korshikova Olga

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Sociology and Social Informatics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2020

This paper explores the communication between members of the community of the social network “VK” “Overhear Carsharing”. Thevenot and Boltanski's book “On Justification: Economies of Worth” was used as a theoretical framework. The purpose of the study is to find out which worlds are used in the carsharing community to justify their point of view. As a method, we used Structural Topic Modeling. The result showed the worlds that are most often used for communication in this community, and conflicting worlds as well.

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