iseratho / sicss-idea-6

Rally ‘round the institution:

Sentiments and emotions toward NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic
Political conversations on UK Twitter and their sentiments about a public institution under fire

Anecdotal evidence: people and politicians rallied around health institutions after COVID-19 before eventually drifting apart.
Hypothesis: we expect to observe such rallying behavior in social media discussions.
RQ: How do discussions involving MPs on Twitter regarding NHS change after the pandemic hits?

Data collection & Analysis methods

• Get data of UK’s MPs affiliation and tweet handles
• Get their conversations about NHS
• 52,302 tweets collected with twarc2
• Split data: before, 1st wave, after

Text analysis:

• remove URLs
• 🤗Twitter RoBERTa models of Cardiff NLP
• sentiment, hate, offensive, emotion, irony

Network analysis:

• using Gephi
• mention graph + sentiment
• PageRank, ForceAtlas2

SICSS 2022 - Idea 6

Group members:

• Markus Reiter-Haas
• Abdoul kafid TOKO
• Emil Bakkensen Johansen