Tag: Sentiment

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 …

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 …

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 …