Tag: Twitter

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 …

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 …

#ImagineEurope at the Turing Summit

Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram The Imagine Europe project explores how people use social media to talk about the UK’s relationship with the EU. Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram report on a recent data science event in Edinburgh in which the project participated. LinkedIn Maps Data Visualisation, Luc Legay, CC-BY-SA-2.0 This week the Imagine Europe …

The Use of #Migrant and #Refugee on Twitter

Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram In discussions on the mass movement of people from the Mediterranean Basin to Europe, the choice of words can play an important role. Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram explore how users on Twitter make use of the terms ‘migrant’ and ‘refugee’ in the debate. P-GRC0233, IFRCRCS, CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 The movement of …

Building a Twitter Dataset to Find out How People View the EU

Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram In the context of the UK’s referendum on membership of the EU, Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram are investigating how people use social media to talk about the UK-EU relationship. They provide the first update on the project, which has a presence on Storify, explaining the process of building a dataset …