Emotion analysis of Portuguese political parties communication over the covid-19 pandemic

João Tiago Aparício; João Salema de Sequeira; Carlos J. Costa

doi:10.23919/CISTI52073.2021.9476557

Emotion analysis of Portuguese political parties communication over the covid-19 pandemic

João Tiago Aparício^*, João Salema de Sequeira^*, Carlos J. Costa^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this paper, we explore the use of emotions in the Portuguese political parties' (with a seat in the Portuguese Parliament) communication as expressed by their official Twitter accounts, as of March 2020. The chosen period of our investigation is particularly interesting because political parties had a chance to communicate their views during a pandemic situation and over a period of one year. These views include possible solutions to face the crisis and their comments on the development of the whole situation. Using a standard lexicon we classified the amount of particular emotions in different tweets. Using this method we plotted the average positivity and negativity along time per party. We also analyzed the impact of each emotion to classify positivity using the present corpus. Finally, we considered some important words regarding the pandemic and their average positivity score. The analysis allows us to identify different approaches to participation in social media according to different strategies, more than political ideology.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of CISTI 2021 - 16th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
Editors	Álvaro Rocha, Ramiro Gonçalves, Francisco Garcia Penalvo, José Martins
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9789895465910
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.23919/CISTI52073.2021.9476557
Publication status	Published - 23 Jun 2021
Event	16th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI 2021 - Chaves, Portugal Duration: 23 Jun 2021 → 26 Jun 2021

Publication series

Name	Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI
ISSN (Print)	2166-0727
ISSN (Electronic)	2166-0735

Conference

Conference	16th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI 2021
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Chaves
Period	23/06/21 → 26/06/21

Keywords

Covid-19
Emotions
Lexicon
Political communication
Portuguese
Portuguese parliament
Portuguese political parties
Sentiment analysis
Social media
Twitter
Visualization

UN SDGs

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Aparício, J. T., Sequeira, J. S. D., & Costa, C. J. (2021). Emotion analysis of Portuguese political parties communication over the covid-19 pandemic. In Á. Rocha, R. Gonçalves, F. G. Penalvo, & J. Martins (Eds.), Proceedings of CISTI 2021 - 16th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.23919/CISTI52073.2021.9476557

Aparício, João Tiago ; Sequeira, João Salema de ; Costa, Carlos J. / Emotion analysis of Portuguese political parties communication over the covid-19 pandemic. Proceedings of CISTI 2021 - 16th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies. editor / Álvaro Rocha ; Ramiro Gonçalves ; Francisco Garcia Penalvo ; José Martins. IEEE Computer Society, 2021. (Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI).

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Aparício, JT, Sequeira, JSD & Costa, CJ 2021, Emotion analysis of Portuguese political parties communication over the covid-19 pandemic. in Á Rocha, R Gonçalves, FG Penalvo & J Martins (eds), Proceedings of CISTI 2021 - 16th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies. Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI, IEEE Computer Society, 16th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI 2021, Chaves, Portugal, 23/06/21. https://doi.org/10.23919/CISTI52073.2021.9476557

Emotion analysis of Portuguese political parties communication over the covid-19 pandemic. / Aparício, João Tiago; Sequeira, João Salema de; Costa, Carlos J.
Proceedings of CISTI 2021 - 16th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies. ed. / Álvaro Rocha; Ramiro Gonçalves; Francisco Garcia Penalvo; José Martins. IEEE Computer Society, 2021. (Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Aparício JT, Sequeira JSD, Costa CJ. Emotion analysis of Portuguese political parties communication over the covid-19 pandemic. In Rocha Á, Gonçalves R, Penalvo FG, Martins J, editors, Proceedings of CISTI 2021 - 16th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies. IEEE Computer Society. 2021. (Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI). doi: 10.23919/CISTI52073.2021.9476557

Emotion analysis of Portuguese political parties communication over the covid-19 pandemic

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