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frequency of the related issues 3) the amount of words used in the related issues.
This study took samples from the said section before round 16 of the group match in
order to analyze the standing of the teams. The sampling period specifically occurred
between June 11 and June 25. Since all participants successively played three games
in this period, they were under equal condition to be covered by “Latest News.”
Accordingly, this study selected 787 issues directly related to the participants (the
national team, coach, players, etc.) out of 1,143 and calculated the number of the
related issues and the amount of words used in the issues concerning each participant.
This study, however, does not calculate the area of the related issue since it cannot
be calculated correctly.
RESULT
The composition and the characteristics of each cluster
Research Question 1 (RQ1) asks this question: How are the participants in the 2010
FIFA World Cup classified based on the World System perspective? To solve this
question, this study conducted a two-step cluster analysis (see table 3). First, this
study classified all participants based on the World System categories of core, semiperiphery,
and periphery. For the categorical variable, three is given as a score to
each participant in the core group, two to each participant in the semi-periphery
category, and one to each participant in the periphery group. The study also employed
the mean of points for military capability/sophistication and export of major
conventional weapons per 100,000 people. Included as well were the overall points
given by GCI and the number of International Organization Participation points of
each country identifying the military force, the economic power, and diplomatic power
as the continuous variables.
Table 3. The composition of each cluster
Semi-
Core
Periphery
Periphery
Total
N %
Cluster 1 a 13 5 18 56.3
Cluster 2 b 14 14 43.8
a. Core & Semi-Periphery: Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Netherland, Italy, Germany, Argentina,
England, France, United States, Mexico, Australia, Swiss, Denmark, Japan, Korea Republic,
New Zealand, South Africa(FIFA World Raking Rank-order).
b. Periphery: Greece, Serbia, Uruguay, Chile, Cameroon, Nigeria, Slovenia, Côte d'Ivoire(Ivory
coast), Algeria, Paraguay, Ghana, Slovak Republic, Honduras(FIFA World Raking Rank-order).
To get the result for the two-step cluster analysis, participants were classified into two
clusters. Cluster 1 consisted of 18 countries; all belong to the core group and the
semi-periphery group based on the description given in the world system category.
The rest of the countries, in the peripheral group, fall under Cluster 2. To confirm the
results, this study should statistically verify the difference between the two clusters in
three areas. In the result of t-Test in Table 4, there are statistically significant
differences in military force (t=2.83, df=30, p