TY - JOUR
T1 - Analyzing shift in narratives regarding migrants in Europe via blogosphere
AU - Hussain, Muhammad Nihal
AU - Bandeli, Kiran Kumar
AU - Al-khateeb, Samer
AU - Agarwal, Nitin
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation (IIS-1636933, ACI-1429160, and IIS-1110868), U.S. Office of Naval Research (N00014-10-1-0091, N00014-14-1-0489, N00014-15-P-1187, N00014-16-1-2016, N00014-16-1-2412, N00014-17-1-2605, N00014-17-1-2675), U.S. Air Force Research Lab, U.S. Army Research Office (W911NF-16-1-0189), U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (W31P4Q-17-C-0059) and the Jerry L. Maulden/Entergy Fund at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding organizations. The researchers gratefully acknowledge the support.
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Social media is widely used by individuals to express their views or opinions with others. Social media users leverage this platform to further their views by framing narratives and participating in online discourse. Nowadays almost all events, issues, and crises are discussed on social media. Blogs are not regulated by any authority and have no limit on the number of characters - unlike other social media platforms - which provide bloggers with a richer space of content. Blogs also serve as a platform for agenda-setting and content framing abetting development of weaponized narratives. Blogs are a good source of data for sociologists and political scientists to gain situational awareness about various events which can be achieved by tracking different opinions and political views as being shaped. In this research, we analyze blogs to study shift in narratives in blogosphere towards refugees or migrants during the migrant crisis in Europe. We use the Blogtrackers tool to analyze over 9,000 blog posts published from December 2005 to mid-March 2016. We use named-entity extraction to identify different topics and themes, then use targeted sentiment analysis to study the shift in narratives toward migrants in the blogosphere.
AB - Social media is widely used by individuals to express their views or opinions with others. Social media users leverage this platform to further their views by framing narratives and participating in online discourse. Nowadays almost all events, issues, and crises are discussed on social media. Blogs are not regulated by any authority and have no limit on the number of characters - unlike other social media platforms - which provide bloggers with a richer space of content. Blogs also serve as a platform for agenda-setting and content framing abetting development of weaponized narratives. Blogs are a good source of data for sociologists and political scientists to gain situational awareness about various events which can be achieved by tracking different opinions and political views as being shaped. In this research, we analyze blogs to study shift in narratives in blogosphere towards refugees or migrants during the migrant crisis in Europe. We use the Blogtrackers tool to analyze over 9,000 blog posts published from December 2005 to mid-March 2016. We use named-entity extraction to identify different topics and themes, then use targeted sentiment analysis to study the shift in narratives toward migrants in the blogosphere.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85045411853
VL - 2077
JO - CEUR Workshop Proceedings
JF - CEUR Workshop Proceedings
SN - 1613-0073
T2 - 1st Workshop on Narrative Extraction From Text, Text2Story 2018
Y2 - 26 March 2018
ER -