Measuring Online Emotional Reactions to Events
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| author | Guo, Siyi He, Zihao Rao, Ashwin Jang, Eugene Nan, Yuanfeixue Morstatter, Fred Brantingham, Jeffrey Lerman, Kristina |
| author_facet | Guo, Siyi He, Zihao Rao, Ashwin Jang, Eugene Nan, Yuanfeixue Morstatter, Fred Brantingham, Jeffrey Lerman, Kristina |
| contents | The rich and dynamic information environment of social media provides researchers, policy makers, and entrepreneurs with opportunities to learn about social phenomena in a timely manner. However, using this data to understand social behavior is difficult due heterogeneity of topics and events discussed in the highly dynamic online information environment. To address these challenges, we present a method for systematically detecting and measuring emotional reactions to offline events using change point detection on the time series of collective affect, and further explaining these reactions using a transformer-based topic model. We demonstrate the utility of the method on a corpus of tweets from a large US metropolitan area between January and August, 2020, covering a period of great social change. We demonstrate that our method is able to disaggregate topics to measure population's emotional and moral reactions. This capability allows for better monitoring of population's reactions during crises using online data. |
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| spellingShingle | Measuring Online Emotional Reactions to Events Guo, Siyi He, Zihao Rao, Ashwin Jang, Eugene Nan, Yuanfeixue Morstatter, Fred Brantingham, Jeffrey Lerman, Kristina Social and Information Networks Physics and Society The rich and dynamic information environment of social media provides researchers, policy makers, and entrepreneurs with opportunities to learn about social phenomena in a timely manner. However, using this data to understand social behavior is difficult due heterogeneity of topics and events discussed in the highly dynamic online information environment. To address these challenges, we present a method for systematically detecting and measuring emotional reactions to offline events using change point detection on the time series of collective affect, and further explaining these reactions using a transformer-based topic model. We demonstrate the utility of the method on a corpus of tweets from a large US metropolitan area between January and August, 2020, covering a period of great social change. We demonstrate that our method is able to disaggregate topics to measure population's emotional and moral reactions. This capability allows for better monitoring of population's reactions during crises using online data. |
| title | Measuring Online Emotional Reactions to Events |
| topic | Social and Information Networks Physics and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.10245 |