Introduction
Till now we examined the different positions about a specific topic and we introduced the typology of authors present in the controversy.
Here we are going to understand better how, how much and where they are speaking.
Chapter 2 - Is drinking milk healthy?
By authors - Topic
Protocol
The typology is defined thanks to the categories of websites found in the Wikipedia definition of “Website”, in the section “Types of websites”. This variety of typologies may be arbitrarily interpreted in any numbers of ways.
How to read it
The second chart shows the percentage of the different authors in each websites’ topic. As in the graph before the colors indicate the authors. The names on the top of the columns are themselves explicative of the main topic of the websites.
It’s possible to see the exact percentage of the influence of a determined author in each topic, clicking on their names in the legend.
Findings
In the second visualization the results confirm the expectation, in Health and Nutrition the main authors are experts, in Milk undefined authors, in Miscellany writers, in website about news journalist and in science and technology the authors are most academics.
First of all, it’s interesting the presence of the websites where the main topic is only milk and, second, in this column all the authors are present, except for academics and journalists.
