Analysis of Public Mood in Cyberspace: An Empirical Study Based on Twitter

摘要：

With the popularity of online media, the expression, dissemination and gathering of public mood has become easier and easier. However, it also causes a lot of irrational emotion filled in the Cyberspace, which brings challenges to the governance of Cyberspace. Correct analysis of Cyberspace public mood is the basis of cyberspace governance. Twitter is a tool of online communication, by which users broadcast brief text updates. Regardless of their intended use and content, twitts often convey some related information about their authors mood status. Therefore, Twitter can be used to analyze public mood in Cyberspace. This paper performs an public mood analysis of Sina twitts about flooding, Which is a famous Twitter in China. The results show that the use of Twitter to analyze public mood in cyberspace is feasible.

关键词： Government governance Public mood Cyberspace Twitter

作者: ZHANG Hui-ping

作者单位: School of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, P. R. China, 610054

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2010 International Conference on Public Administration(6th)(2010 第六届公共管理国际会议)

会议地点: 澳大利亚堪培拉

会议语种:英文

页码: 357-362

在线出版日期: 2010-10-22（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）