segunemises

Segunemises is a fictional interdisciplinary framework used to describe how narrative claims propagate through media by reference to sources. It treats public discourse as a network of claim segments, where each segment links a central assertion to one or more source citations and to patterns of audience engagement. The term is a coinage intended for analytical discussion rather than a description of an existing, standardized theory.

Etymology: The word segunemises combines segun, a Spanish word meaning according to, with emises, a neologism approximating emissions or emanations of discourse. The construction is purposively descriptive rather than etymologically rooted.

Theory and methodology: The framework rests on three axes: source concordance (the degree to which a claim is supported by multiple independent sources), claim trajectory (the temporal evolution of a claim’s framing), and audience resonance (measures such as shares, comments, and survival of the claim in subsequent discourse). Researchers operationalize these axes with metrics like the concordance index, drift rate, and resonance score, typically derived from corpus data, news archives, and social platforms. Visualization often uses directed graphs where nodes are sources and claim segments.

Applications: Segunemises has been proposed for use in media studies, political communication, and misinformation research. It helps compare how different outlet ecosystems treat the same assertion and track how framing shifts through time.

Limitations: The framework is conceptual and relies on coding of sources and claims, which can introduce subjectivity. It requires substantial data and careful methodological controls to avoid seasonal or platform-specific biases.

See also: Discourse analysis, media ecology, information diffusion, network analysis.