CS3043 -PROJECT 3 Effect of Terror Attack Locale on Social Media - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Batyrlan Nurbekov, Samuel Khalandovsky CS3043 -PROJECT 3 Effect of Terror Attack Locale on Social Media Coverage and Sentiment

HYPOTHESIS Hypothesis: terrorist attacks in Western countries lead to much greater media coverage, and that this difference is visible on Twitter through the sentiment of user posts. For attacks in Western countries, there is:  Greater coverage by social media  Stronger emotional response

DATA & ANALYSIS  Arousal and pleasure scores were calculated for tweets  Mean and standard deviation scores were compared  Number was results were also compared Example of query: "Paris terrorist OR terror OR terrorism"

SOCIAL AND TRADITIONAL MEDIA COVERAGE Paris Beirut Sinai Syria Tell Tamer Number of 195 135 71 174 71 tweets found Number of 22,345 1,286 3,234 10,959 252 articles since the date of incident found on Google News Number of 1,210,000 273,000 281,000 876,000 54,000 articles found on Bing News

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SENTIMENT AVERAGES

CONCLUSIONS  Terrorist attacks in Western countries are better broadcasted by both social and traditional media  Emotional reaction to terrorist attacks in the Middle-East is just as negative as reactions to terrorist attacks in the West Social impact: Raising awareness of media skew in the English-speaking world (470 million - 1 billion people)