Public perception of a country: Exploring tweets about Qatar

Shahan Ali Memon; Rohith Krishnan Pillai; Susan Dun; Yelena Mejova; Ingmar Weber

doi:10.1145/3091478.3098872

Public perception of a country: Exploring tweets about Qatar

Shahan Ali Memon, Rohith Krishnan Pillai, Susan Dun, Yelena Mejova, Ingmar Weber

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Abstract

Is it possible to "hack" an image of an international entity by driving international and domestic media? Here, wepresentanimage/brand monitoring tool for a country, Qatar, which presents an overview of the contexts and references to media in which it is mentioned on social media. Tracking dozens of languages, this tool allows a global understanding of the perceptions and concerns Twitter users associate with Qatar, and which mainstream media may be driving these sentiments.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	WebSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Web Science Conference
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	401-402
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450348966
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3091478.3098872
State	Published - Jun 25 2017
Event	9th ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci 2017 - Troy, United States Duration: Jun 25 2017 → Jun 28 2017

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Other	9th ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	Troy
Period	6/25/17 → 6/28/17

Keywords

Nation branding
Public opinion
Twitter

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Computer Networks and Communications

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Memon, SA, Pillai, RK, Dun, S, Mejova, Y & Weber, I 2017, Public perception of a country: Exploring tweets about Qatar. in WebSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Web Science Conference. WebSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Web Science Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 401-402, 9th ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci 2017, Troy, United States, 6/25/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3091478.3098872

Public perception of a country : Exploring tweets about Qatar. / Memon, Shahan Ali; Pillai, Rohith Krishnan; Dun, Susan et al.

WebSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Web Science Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2017. p. 401-402 (WebSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Web Science Conference).

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