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负面情绪传播更快:关于情感在政治传播中作用的大规模多语言Twitter分析

Negativity Spreads Faster: A Large-Scale Multilingual Twitter Analysis on the Role of Sentiment in Political Communication

Cardiff University(卡迪夫大学)

Dimosthenis Antypas, Alun Preece, Jose Camacho-Collados

AI总结:

本文利用预训练语言模型对欧洲三国数十万条议员推文进行情感分析,发现政治家的负面推文传播更广,并揭示了政党及政民间的情感传播差异。

摘要:

社交媒体在现代社会政策制定中变得极具影响力,尤其在西方世界,Twitter等平台允许用户关注政治家,从而使公民更多地参与政治讨论。同样地,政治家利用Twitter表达观点、就当前话题与他人辩论并推广其政治议程,旨在影响选民行为。在本文中,我们尝试分析来自三个欧洲国家政治家的推文,并探索其推文的病毒式传播力。先前的研究表明,传达负面情绪的推文可能被更频繁地转发。通过利用最先进的预训练语言模型,我们对从希腊、西班牙和英国(包括权力下放政府)的议会议员处收集的数十万条推文进行了情感分析。我们通过系统地探索和分析有影响力的推文与不太受欢迎的推文之间的差异实现了这一目标。我们的分析表明,政治家带有负面情绪的推文传播得更广,尤其是在近期,并突显了政党之间以及政治家与普通民众之间的有趣差异。

英文摘要:

Social media has become extremely influential when it comes to policy making in modern societies, especially in the western world, where platforms such as Twitter allow users to follow politicians, thus making citizens more involved in political discussion. In the same vein, politicians use Twitter to express their opinions, debate among others on current topics and promote their political agendas aiming to influence voter behaviour. In this paper, we attempt to analyse tweets of politicians from three European countries and explore the virality of their tweets. Previous studies have shown that tweets conveying negative sentiment are likely to be retweeted more frequently. By utilising state-of-the-art pre-trained language models, we performed sentiment analysis on hundreds of thousands of tweets collected from members of parliament in Greece, Spain and the United Kingdom, including devolved administrations. We achieved this by systematically exploring and analysing the differences between influential and less popular tweets. Our analysis indicates that politicians' negatively charged tweets spread more widely, especially in more recent times, and highlights interesting differences between political parties as well as between politicians and the general population.

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