Sentiment Analysis of Media in German on the Refugee Crisis in Europe

Backfried, Gerhard; Shalunts, Gayane

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-47093-1_20

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“…Sentiment analysis has been recognised in different studies as a technique to identify the polarity (positive, neutral or negative) of a large set of texts from programming techniques. In the study of communication discourses, sentiment analysis has been mostly used for the identification of polarity in discussion in social media such as Twitter (Kumar and Jaiswal 2020) or Facebook (Sandoval-Almazan and Valle-Cruz 2020;Haryanto et al 2019) and has also been employed in characterising the polarity of mainstream media discourses (Boukes et al 2020;Backfried and Shalunts 2016;Padmaja et al 2014;Balahur and Steinberger 2009;Godbole et al 2007). Similarly, studies by Leavy (2019Leavy ( , 2020 and Jia et al (2016) have employed such techniques in the research of media portrayal of women.…”

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How Are Women Politicians Treated in the Press? The Case of Spain, France and the United Kingdom

Fernández-Rovira

Luque

2021

Journalism and Media

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Women politicians have been discriminated against or negatively valued under stereotypes in media coverage and have been given a secondary role compared to male politicians. The article proposes an analysis of the treatment given by digital media to women political leaders. They are from different parties in three countries and the aim is to identify the polarity (positive, neutral or negative) of the information published about them in the media. The text focuses on the cases of Anne Hidalgo and Marine Le Pen, from France, Nicola Sturgeon and Theresa May, from the United Kingdom and Ada Colau and Inés Arrimadas, from Spain. The study develops a computerised sentiment analysis of the information published in two leading digital newspapers in each country, during the month of November 2019. The research, with the analysis of 1100 journalistic pieces, shows that the polarity or valence of the women analysed is predominantly neutral and positive and that the journalistic genres do not determine the media representation of the women studied. On the contrary, the country of study does have a predominant incidence on the way in which women politicians are represented, while the relationship of affinity or antipathy of the Spanish media with the women politicians studied is significant.

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How Are Women Politicians Treated in the Press? The Case of Spain, France and the United Kingdom

Fernández-Rovira

Luque

2021

Journalism and Media

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“…Immigration a charged political issue and is actively discussed on social networks. Several studies have measured population level sentiment on this topic in Twitter [18], [1], [6]. It was found in [18] that English posts about the refugee crisis were more likely to have a negative opinion on the topic.…”

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Mitigating the Backfire Effect Using Pacing andLeading

Zaman

Yang

Qureshi

2022

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Researchers have found that individuals in online social networks become more resolute in their beliefs when shown opinions opposite their own, a phenomenon referred to as the backfire effect. In this work we present a persuasion technique we call pacing and leading, which can mitigate the backfire effect. This dynamic technique has one gradually evolve their opinion over time to initially pace the persuasion target, and then lead them to the desired opinion. To test this technique, we conduct a field experiment in Twitter using artificial bot accounts where the goal is to persuade users who oppose immigration to support it. Neural network based sentiment analysis of the experimental subjects' tweets identifies a strong negative sentiment for tweets containing the word ``illegals''. Based on this, we use the frequency of tweets containing illegals as a measure of the treatment effect. We find that pacing and leading is more effective than simply presenting an opposing view, which we refer to as arguing, which actually results in a backfire effect. Our results suggest that dynamic persuasion techniques can be more effective than static approaches which present a constant opinion.

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“…Other researchers have also focused on specific events, and in particular on disinformation. Wilson et al [92] analyze comments on Twitter around the Aleppo boy conspiracy theory, while Backfried et al [6] investigate attitudes towards refugees in Europe on German media. Starbird [79] studies how disinformation related to massive shooting events spreads on Twitter, and Conover et al [18] characterize Twitter users' political orientations based on tweets related to the 2010 U.S. Congress midterm elections.…”

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A Multi-Platform Analysis of Political News Discussion and Sharing on Web Communities

Wang¹,

Zannettou²,

Blackburn³

et al. 2021

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The news ecosystem has become increasingly complex, encompassing a wide range of sources with varying levels of trustworthiness, and with public commentary giving different spins to the same stories. In this paper, we present a multiplatform measurement of this ecosystem. We compile a list of 1,073 news websites and extract posts from four Web communities (Twitter, Reddit, 4chan, and Gab) that contain URLs from these sources. This yields a dataset of 38M posts containing 15M news URLs, spanning almost three years.We study the data along several axes, assessing the trustworthiness of shared news, designing a method to group news articles into stories, analyzing these stories are discussed, and measuring the influence various Web communities have in that. Our analysis shows that different communities discuss different types of news, with polarized communities like Gab and /r/The_Donald subreddit disproportionately referencing untrustworthy sources. We also find that fringe communities often have a disproportionate influence on other platforms w.r.t. pushing narratives around certain news, for example about political elections, immigration, or foreign policy.

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Sentiment Analysis of Media in German on the Refugee Crisis in Europe

Cited by 14 publications

References 13 publications

How Are Women Politicians Treated in the Press? The Case of Spain, France and the United Kingdom

How Are Women Politicians Treated in the Press? The Case of Spain, France and the United Kingdom

Mitigating the Backfire Effect Using Pacing andLeading

A Multi-Platform Analysis of Political News Discussion and Sharing on Web Communities

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