Integrating sentiment and social structure to determine preference alignments: the Irish Marriage Referendum

We examine the relationship between social structure and sentiment through the analysis of a large collection of tweets about the Irish Marriage Referendum of 2015. We obtain the sentiment of every tweet with the hashtags #marref and #marriageref that was posted in the days leading to the referendum...

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Main Authors: David J. P. O’Sullivan, Guillermo Garduño-Hernández, James P. Gleeson, Mariano Beguerisse-Díaz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2017-01-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.170154