Category: Laura Cram

Exploring Bias: Comparing Approaches for Collecting Twitter Data

Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram As part of the Imagine Europe project, Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram explore the different kinds of Twitter data sets they have collected on the UK’s EU referendum debate and the insights that each set’s distinct characteristics can provide. Herman Van Rompuy meets with David Cameron – Nov 2011, European …

Brexit? Contrasting Opinion on the UK’s EU Referendum

Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram As part of the Imagine Europe project, Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram explain the background of the Twitter demonstrator they have created to track and analyse the discussion on Twitter around the UK’s EU referendum. EU Flag from the Quirinale, Bob, CC-BY-2.0 As part of our research, we have produced …

Twitter Sentiment Analysis on the UK’s EU Membership

Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram As part of the Imagine Europe project, Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram explore the strengths and limitations of using hashtags to determine sentiment in Tweets on the UK’s EU membership. © iStock.com/AntiMartina. Reproduced under license In this article, we use our Imagine Europe dataset to analyse the sentiment of hashtags …

EU Referendum Campaign Groups: Strategies on Twitter

Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram Analysing data collected from the Imagine Europe project, Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram outline the different Twitter strategies of three campaign groups organised around the UK’s EU referendum. Scottish Parliament – Artwork, Tom Parnell, CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 Social media is used by campaign groups to get their message across in elections and …

Getting the Message Across in the Twittersphere: How Remain and Leave Use Hashtags

Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram Taking the Imagine Europe project’s Twitter data, Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram explain how people express sentiment on the UK’s membership of the EU through using hashtags. European Commission Election Press Conference, Martin Schulz, CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 In our work investigating how people discuss the EU on Twitter, one of the aims …

Message from Cameron’s Speech – Still an Awkward Partner

Laura Cram David Cameron’s speech and letter outlining the plans for renegotiation of the UK’s EU membership were attempts to frame the debate as much to set its content, writes Laura Cram. She argues that, despite claiming a practical approach, the Prime Minister in fact relied upon emotional arguments unlikely to convince many of the …

Reaction: The UK’s EU Renegotiation Demands

Laura Cram · Owen Kelly · Niamh Nic Shuibhne · Eleanor Spaventa · Tobias Lock · Michael Keating Expert Reaction Today, UK Prime Minister David Cameron sent a letter to the President of the European Council outlining his agenda for renegotiating the UK’s membership of the European Union, ahead of a referendum on the issue. …

Imagining the EU: Words Associated with the EU and Europe

Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram The Imagine Europe project has been collecting data since the summer on how the UK’s relationship with the EU is talked about on Twitter. Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram present an update on the hashtags used in the debate and the sentiments associated with them. Strasbourg Plenary October 2015, European …