Chan, C-H, Wessler, H, Rinke, EM orcid.org/0000-0002-5330-7634 et al. (3 more authors) (2020) How Combining Terrorism, Muslim, and Refugee Topics Drives Emotional Tone in Online News: A Six-Country Cross-Cultural Sentiment Analysis. International Journal of Communication, 14. pp. 3569-3594. ISSN 1932-8036
Abstract
This study looks into how the combination of Islam, refugees, and terrorism topics leads to text-internal changes in the emotional tone of news articles and how these vary across countries and media outlets. Using a multilingual human-validated sentiment analysis, we compare fear and pity in more than 560,000 articles from the most important online news sources in six countries (U.S., Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, and Lebanon). We observe that fear and pity work antagonistically—that is, the more articles in a particular topical category contain fear, the less pity they will feature. The coverage of refugees without mentioning terrorists and Muslims/Islam featured the lowest fear and highest pity levels of all topical categories studied here. However, when refugees were covered in combination with terrorism and/or Islam, fear increased and pity decreased in Christian-majority countries, whereas no such pattern appeared in Muslim-majority countries (Lebanon, Turkey). Variations in emotions are generally driven more by country-level differences than by the political alignment of individual outlets.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 (Chung-Hong Chan, Hartmut Wessler, Eike Mark Rinke, Kasper Welbers, Wouter van Atteveldt, and Scott Althaus). Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd). To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. |
Keywords: | terrorism; refugee; Muslim; sentiment analysis; multicultural analysis |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 Jun 2020 11:27 |
Last Modified: | 11 Jun 2020 11:27 |
Published Version: | https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/13247 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:161767 |