What’s in a tweet?: twitter’s impact on public opinion and EU foreign affairs

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  • dc.contributor.author Schmitt, Lewin
  • dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-17T11:36:27Z
  • dc.date.available 2021-11-17T11:36:27Z
  • dc.date.issued 2021
  • dc.description.abstract This paper uses text mining and sentiment analysis of Twitter posts to explore the EU’s diplomatic communication practices and to measure public opinion on foreign affairs. Building on an original dataset of almost one million tweets from the past five years, this analysis reveals differences in public perceptions of the EU’s relationship with China, India and Russia. Attitudes are most positive in the case of the EU–India relationship, followed by EU–China and EU–Russia. Furthermore, the paper examines hundreds of official EU Twitter accounts, specifically their communications on diplomatic relations with these countries. A main finding is that the EU talks about its diplomatic relations in more positive terms than the wider public, though this verbal politeness effect is less pronounced in the case of EU–Russia relations.
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  • dc.identifier.citation Schmitt L. What’s in a tweet?: twitter’s impact on public opinion and EU foreign affairs. Documents CIDOB. 2021 Jun;(11):1-16. DOI: 10.24241/docCIDOB.2021.11
  • dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.24241/docCIDOB.2021.11
  • dc.identifier.issn 2339-9570
  • dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/49005
  • dc.language.iso eng
  • dc.publisher CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)
  • dc.relation.ispartof Documents CIDOB. 2021 Jun;(11):1-16
  • dc.rights Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals by CIDOB is licensed under a Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).  
  • dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
  • dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
  • dc.subject.keyword EU foreign policy
  • dc.subject.keyword Twitter diplomacy
  • dc.subject.keyword Text mining
  • dc.subject.keyword Public opinion
  • dc.title What’s in a tweet?: twitter’s impact on public opinion and EU foreign affairs
  • dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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