Title
Sentiment-enhanced Multidimensional Analysis of Online Social Networks: Perception of the Mediterranean Refugees Crisis.
Abstract
We propose an analytical framework able to investigate discussions about polarized topics in online social networks from many different angles. The framework supports the analysis of social networks along several dimensions: time, space and sentiment. We show that the proposed analytical framework and the methodology can be used to mine knowledge about the perception of complex social phenomena. We selected the refugee crisis discussions over Twitter as a case study. This difficult and controversial topic is an increasingly important issue for the EU. The raw stream of tweets is enriched with space information (user and mentioned locations), and sentiment (positive vs. negative) w.r.t. refugees. Our study shows differences in positive and negative sentiment in EU countries, in particular in UK, and by matching events, locations and perception, it underlines opinion dynamics and common prejudices regarding the refugees.
Year
Venue
DocType
2016
ASONAM
Conference
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1605.01895
3
0.42
References 
Authors
12
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mauro Coletto1655.74
Claudio Lucchese2110473.76
Cristina Ioana Muntean3328.28
Franco Maria Nardini431436.52
Andrea Esuli52810149.67
Chiara Renso692576.04
Raffaele Perego71471108.91