Emotions in leader's crisis communication: Twitter sentiment analysis during COVID-19 outbreak.

Adoption of social media by political leaders for information dissemination, campaigns, and elections has been proliferating since 2008 and in 2020, 23% growth in Twitter users is observed. Past studies revealed, content and tone as the vital elements of social media communication. Therefore, curren...

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Publicado en:Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment Vol. 31; no. 1-4; pp. 362 - 373
Autores principales: Kaur, Manpreet, Verma, Rajesh, Otoo, Frank Nana Kweku
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan-Jun2021
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          Kaur, Manpreet
          Verma, Rajesh
          Otoo, Frank Nana Kweku
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          COVID-19 Pandemic Prevention and Control
          Leaders Psychosocial Factors
          Politics Psychosocial Factors
          Crisis Intervention Methods
          Communication Methods
          Emotions Evaluation
          Twitter
          Human
          Trust
          Descriptive Statistics
          Content Analysis
          Natural Language Processing
          Diffusion of Innovation
          Health Promotion
          Public Health
          Clinical Assessment Tools
          Sentiment Analysis
      ab: Adoption of social media by political leaders for information dissemination, campaigns, and elections has been proliferating since 2008 and in 2020, 23% growth in Twitter users is observed. Past studies revealed, content and tone as the vital elements of social media communication. Therefore, current study aimed to explore on how leaders portray emotions in communication on Twitter, particularly amid crisis like COVID-19 when establishing trust is crucial for smooth dissemination of knowledge to public. Total 12128 tweets were mined from official Twitter handles of 29 Indian political leaders, from the day of COVID-19 pandemic declaration to Indian Lockdown 2.0. For analysis, NRC-based sentiment analysis of NLP is employed using R Software. Results exhibit that amongst Anger, Anticipation, Disgust, Fear, Joy, Sadness, Surprise, Trust, Negative, Positive; positive and trust are the most common emotion found whenever the authorities issued or communicated the new guidelines. Insights from results will be helpful for leaders to improve communication on virtual world considering emotions.
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