2019
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-53404-x
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Relationship between ideology and language in the Catalan independence context

Abstract: Political polarization generates strong effects on society, driving controversial debates and influencing the institutions. Territorial disputes are one of the most important polarized scenarios and have been consistently related to the use of language. In this work, we analyzed the opinion and language distributions of a particular territorial dispute around the independence of Catalonia through Twitter data. We infer a continuous opinion distribution by applying a model based on retweet interactions, previou… Show more

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“…However, studies that test these arguments are seemingly contradictory and inconclusive 8 – 11 . Recent findings demonstrate not only that ideologically heterogeneous exchanges among social media users are deemed more frequent than expected (see 12 16 ) but also that ideological/partisan homophily tends to be equally concentrated at both sides of ideological extremes 17 , 18 . Furthermore, in certain cases, conservative users are more likely to follow media and political accounts classified as left-leaning than the opposite 19 .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…However, studies that test these arguments are seemingly contradictory and inconclusive 8 – 11 . Recent findings demonstrate not only that ideologically heterogeneous exchanges among social media users are deemed more frequent than expected (see 12 16 ) but also that ideological/partisan homophily tends to be equally concentrated at both sides of ideological extremes 17 , 18 . Furthermore, in certain cases, conservative users are more likely to follow media and political accounts classified as left-leaning than the opposite 19 .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…The hierarchical structure is used for sentiment analysis to identify malicious users in the opinion leader set who pose a threat to national security. Atienza-Barthelemy et al [ 32 ] established the directed weighted retweet network to study the relationship between ideology and language in the Catalan independence context. They carried out the selection of the users (opinion leaders) in two steps.…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These early years, a period of changes and profound social, economic and political transformations throughout Europe, were key for the Catalan nation, which for centuries had been claiming its independence from the rest of the Spanish state. On the one hand, Catalan institutions have achieved national and international fame and prestige, something that had not happened before (Álvarez, 2019;Atienza-Barthelemy et al, 2019).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%