Communication Analysis through Visual Analytics: Current Practices, Challenges, and New Frontiers
Maximilian T. Fischer, Frederik L. Dennig, Daniel Seebacher, Daniel A., Keim, Mennatallah El-Assady

TL;DR
This paper presents a comprehensive framework for analyzing digital communication through visual analytics, integrating theoretical insights and technical approaches to address current limitations and guide future research.
Contribution
It introduces a novel conceptual framework based on communication research and technical criteria, enabling systematic evaluation and development of communication analysis systems.
Findings
Identifies gaps in current communication analysis tools.
Proposes a structured framework for system evaluation.
Highlights challenges like privacy, trust, and holistic analysis.
Abstract
The automated analysis of digital human communication data often focuses on specific aspects such as content or network structure in isolation. This can provide limited perspectives while making cross-methodological analyses, occurring in domains like investigative journalism, difficult. Communication research in psychology and the digital humanities instead stresses the importance of a holistic approach to overcome these limiting factors. In this work, we conduct an extensive survey on the properties of over forty semi-automated communication analysis systems and investigate how they cover concepts described in theoretical communication research. From these investigations, we derive a design space and contribute a conceptual framework based on communication research, technical considerations, and the surveyed approaches. The framework describes the systems' properties, capabilities,…
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