Who is really speaking?
The Coordination–Consensus Continuum is Alex-George Adam’s framework for examining attribution in social listening: which mechanisms are compatible with an observed conversation, and what evidence would distinguish coordination from consensus?
Coordination–Consensus Continuum
An observed volume of agreement does not, by itself, identify how independently that agreement arose. Additional evidence and explicit assumptions matter.
Research behind the question
The Coordination–Consensus Continuum ↗When Coordination Becomes Consensus ↗The Coordination–Consensus Continuum: A Conceptual Framework for the Attribution Problem in Social Listening ↗
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