Jing & Ahn, "Characterizing Partisan Political Narrative Frameworks about COVID-19 on Twitter" (2021)

2021-10-30 → 2026-08-14

Elise Jing and Yong-Yeol Ahn, EPJ Data Science 10(1), 53 (2021)
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@article{jing2021characterizing,
    author = {Elise Jing and Yong-Yeol Ahn},
    title = {Characterizing partisan political narrative frameworks about COVID-19 on Twitter},
    journal = {EPJ Data Science},
    volume = {10},
    number = {1},
    pages = {53},
    doi = {10.1140/epjds/s13688-021-00308-4},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
    eprint = {2103.06960},
    primaryClass = {cs.CL},
    year = {2021},
}

Combines contextual, framing, and semantic-role analyses to compare Democratic and Republican politicians’ COVID-19 narratives on Twitter. The two parties emphasize different topics, actors, and responsibilities, exposing gaps between their narrative frameworks.

Narrative, Political polarization, Twitter

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