Public discourse and sentiment during the COVID 19 pandemic: Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation for topic modeling on Twitter

J Xue, J Chen, C Chen, C Zheng, S Li, T Zhu - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The study aims to understand Twitter users' discourse and psychological reactions to COVID-
19. We use machine learning techniques to analyze about 1.9 million Tweets (written in …

Revisiting how and why educators use Twitter: Tweet types and purposes in# Edchat

KB Staudt Willet - Journal of research on technology in education, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This study revisits the Carpenter and Krutka survey of how and why educators use Twitter,
through exploring one of Twitter's oldest education hashtags:# Edchat. From October 1 …

A computational social science perspective on qualitative data exploration: Using topic models for the descriptive analysis of social media data

MY Rodriguez, H Storer - Journal of Technology in Human …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Comparing and contrasting qualitative and quantitative methods for social media data
exploration, this article describes and demonstrates the topic modeling approach for the …

Visualizing YouTube's comment space: online hostility as a networked phenomena

D Murthy, S Sharma - New media & society, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines YouTube's comment space. By focusing on responses to the
provocative musical group, Das Racist, we offer an innovative analysis of online racialized …

Visualizing the Paris climate talks on Twitter: Media and climate stakeholder visual social media during COP21

JE Hopke, LE Hestres - Social Media+ Society, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
In 2015, meeting in Paris for the Conference of the Parties (COP21), representatives of 195
nations set an ambitious goal to reach net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by mid …

Mining topic and sentiment dynamics in physician rating websites during the early wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: Machine learning approach

AM Shah, X Yan, A Qayyum, RA Naqvi… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Introduction An increasing number of patients are voicing their opinions and expectations
about the quality of care in online forums and on physician rating websites (PRWs). This …

Turds, traitors and tossers: the abuse of UK MPs via Twitter

S Ward, L McLoughlin - The Journal of Legislative Studies, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
There has been growing public attention around the abuse of MPs online including criminal
convictions for violent threats, regular coverage of racist and misogynistic language directed …

Storm the capitol: linking offline political speech and online Twitter extra-representational participation on QAnon and the January 6 insurrection

CS Lee, J Merizalde, JD Colautti, J An… - Frontiers in sociology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The transfer of power stemming from the 2020 presidential election occurred during an
unprecedented period in United States history. Uncertainty from the COVID-19 pandemic …

Vernacular practices in digital feminist activism on twitter: Deconstructing affect and emotion in the# MeToo movement

C Nau, J Zhang, A Quan-Haase… - Feminist Media …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In 2017, the# MeToo movement garnered international attention when millions of people
used it to share experiences of sexual violence via social media. Through an analysis of 570 …

Bottom-up nationalism and discrimination on social media: An analysis of the citizenship debate about refugees in Turkey

Ç Bozdağ - European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This study analyzes social media representations of refugees in Turkey and discusses their
role in shaping public opinion. The influx of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey has created …