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Attitudes expressed in online comments about environmental factors in the tourism sector: an exploratory study
The object of this exploratory study is to identify the positive, neutral and negative
environment factors that affect users who visit Spanish hotels in order to help the hotel managers
decide how to improve the quality of the services provided. To carry out the research a Sentiment
Analysis was initially performed, grouping the sample of tweets (n = 14459) according to the feelings
shown and then a textual analysis was used to identify the key environment factors in these feelings
using the qualitative analysis software Nvivo (QSR International, Melbourne, Australia). The results
of the exploratory study present the key environment factors that affect the users experience when
visiting hotels in Spain, such as actions that support local traditions and products, the maintenance of
rural areas respecting the local environment and nature, or respecting air quality in the areas where
hotels have facilities and offer services. The conclusions of the research can help hotels improve their
services and the impact on the environment, as well as improving the visitors experience based on
the positive, neutral and negative environment factors which the visitors themselves identified
Using Twitter to Understand Public Interest in Climate Change: The case of Qatar
Climate change has received an extensive attention from public opinion in the
last couple of years, after being considered for decades as an exclusive
scientific debate. Governments and world-wide organizations such as the United
Nations are working more than ever on raising and maintaining public awareness
toward this global issue. In the present study, we examine and analyze Climate
Change conversations in Qatar's Twittersphere, and sense public awareness
towards this global and shared problem in general, and its various related
topics in particular. Such topics include but are not limited to politics,
economy, disasters, energy and sandstorms. To address this concern, we collect
and analyze a large dataset of 109 million tweets posted by 98K distinct users
living in Qatar -- one of the largest emitters of CO2 worldwide. We use a
taxonomy of climate change topics created as part of the United Nations Pulse
project to capture the climate change discourse in more than 36K tweets. We
also examine which topics people refer to when they discuss climate change, and
perform different analysis to understand the temporal dynamics of public
interest toward these topics.Comment: Will appear in the proceedings of the International Workshop on
Social Media for Environment and Ecological Monitoring (SWEEM'16
Social media and sentiment in bioenergy consultation
Purpose: The push to widen participation in public consultation suggests social media as an additional mechanism through which to engage the public. Bioenergy companies need to build their capacity to communicate in these new media and to monitor the attitudes of the public and opposition organisations towards energy development projects.
Design/methodology/approach: This short paper outlines the planning issues bioenergy developments face and the main methods of communication used in the public consultation process in the UK. The potential role of social media in communication with stakeholders is identified. The capacity of sentiment analysis to mine opinions from social media is summarised, and illustrated using a sample of tweets containing the term ‘bioenergy’
Findings: Social media have the potential to improve information flows between stakeholders and developers. Sentiment analysis is a viable methodology, which bioenergy companies should be using to measure public opinion in the consultation process. Preliminary analysis shows promising results.
Research limitations/implications: Analysis is preliminary and based on a small dataset. It is intended only to illustrate the potential of sentiment analysis and not to draw general conclusions about the bioenergy sector.
Originality/value: Opinion mining, though established in marketing and political analysis, is not yet systematically applied as a planning consultation tool. This is a missed opportunity
Connecting the dots: information visualization and text analysis of the Searchlight Project newsletters
This report is the product of the Pardee Center’s work on the Searchlight:Visualization and Analysis of Trend Data project sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. Part of a larger effort to analyze and disseminate on-the-ground information about important societal trends as reported in a large number of regional newsletters developed in Asia, Africa and the Americas specifically for the Foundation, the Pardee Center developed sophisticated methods to systematically review, categorize, analyze, visualize, and draw conclusions from the information in the newsletters.The Rockefeller Foundatio
Discourse network analysis: policy debates as dynamic networks
Political discourse is the verbal interaction between political actors. Political actors make normative claims about policies conditional on each other. This renders discourse a dynamic network phenomenon. Accordingly, the structure and dynamics of policy debates can be analyzed with a combination of content analysis and dynamic network analysis. After annotating statements of actors in text sources, networks can be created from these structured data, such as congruence or conflict networks at the actor or concept level, affiliation networks of actors and concept stances, and longitudinal versions of these networks. The resulting network data reveal important properties of a debate, such as the structure of advocacy coalitions or discourse coalitions, polarization and consensus formation, and underlying endogenous processes like popularity, reciprocity, or social balance. The added value of discourse network analysis over survey-based policy network research is that policy processes can be analyzed from a longitudinal perspective. Inferential techniques for understanding the micro-level processes governing political discourse are being developed
Measuring Social Well Being in The Big Data Era: Asking or Listening?
The literature on well being measurement seems to suggest that "asking" for a
self-evaluation is the only way to estimate a complete and reliable measure of
well being. At the same time "not asking" is the only way to avoid biased
evaluations due to self-reporting. Here we propose a method for estimating the
welfare perception of a community simply "listening" to the conversations on
Social Network Sites. The Social Well Being Index (SWBI) and its components are
proposed through to an innovative technique of supervised sentiment analysis
called iSA which scales to any language and big data. As main methodological
advantages, this approach can estimate several aspects of social well being
directly from self-declared perceptions, instead of approximating it through
objective (but partial) quantitative variables like GDP; moreover
self-perceptions of welfare are spontaneous and not obtained as answers to
explicit questions that are proved to bias the result. As an application we
evaluate the SWBI in Italy through the period 2012-2015 through the analysis of
more than 143 millions of tweets.Comment: 40 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
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