The Role of Twitter in Media Coverage during Humanitarian Crises. Data mining from International News Agencies

Angel Torres-Toukoumidis; Sofia E. Calle-Pesántez; Santiago Castro; Jorge Galán-Mena

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-45438-7_6

The Role of Twitter in Media Coverage during Humanitarian Crises. Data mining from International News Agencies

Angel Torres-Toukoumidis, Sofia E. Calle-Pesántez, Santiago Castro, Jorge Galán-Mena

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Abstract

This study examines the use of Twitter during humanitarian crises and its impact on public opinion. The study analyzed over 3262 tweets related to crisis, war, tragedy, violence, riot, uprising, revolt, destruction, bombing, migration, and refugees from February 2021 to February 2023 from International News Agencies. The study found that Twitter, reveals the fragmentation of news consumption patterns on social media, which are influenced by the sources of information followed and strengthened by the platforms’ algorithms. Furthermore, the study shows that news agencies’ coverage of humanitarian crises is detectably fragmented, and governments and related organizations have an impact on them and use them for various purposes. The study concludes by recommending future research to expand the analysis to other social media and news agencies, as well as incorporate more advanced techniques for handling misinformation and analyzing the impact of social media on public opinion.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Information and Communication Technologies - 11th Ecuadorian Conference, TICEC 2023, Proceedings
Editors	Jorge Maldonado-Mahauad, Jorge Herrera-Tapia, Jorge Luis Zambrano-Martínez, Santiago Berrezueta, Santiago Berrezueta
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	83-94
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9783031454370
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45438-7_6
State	Published - 2023
Event	11th Ecuadorian Congress of Information and Communication Technologies, TICEC 2023 - Cuenca, Ecuador Duration: 18 Oct 2023 → 20 Oct 2023

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	1885 CCIS
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-0937

Conference

Conference	11th Ecuadorian Congress of Information and Communication Technologies, TICEC 2023
Country/Territory	Ecuador
City	Cuenca
Period	18/10/23 → 20/10/23

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Keywords

Data Mining
Humanitarian Crises
News Agencies
Python
Tokenization
Twitter

UN SDGs

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Torres-Toukoumidis, A., Calle-Pesántez, S. E., Castro, S., & Galán-Mena, J. (2023). The Role of Twitter in Media Coverage during Humanitarian Crises. Data mining from International News Agencies. In J. Maldonado-Mahauad, J. Herrera-Tapia, J. L. Zambrano-Martínez, S. Berrezueta, & S. Berrezueta (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies - 11th Ecuadorian Conference, TICEC 2023, Proceedings (pp. 83-94). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1885 CCIS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45438-7_6

Torres-Toukoumidis, Angel ; Calle-Pesántez, Sofia E. ; Castro, Santiago et al. / The Role of Twitter in Media Coverage during Humanitarian Crises. Data mining from International News Agencies. Information and Communication Technologies - 11th Ecuadorian Conference, TICEC 2023, Proceedings. editor / Jorge Maldonado-Mahauad ; Jorge Herrera-Tapia ; Jorge Luis Zambrano-Martínez ; Santiago Berrezueta ; Santiago Berrezueta. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. pp. 83-94 (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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Torres-Toukoumidis, A, Calle-Pesántez, SE, Castro, S & Galán-Mena, J 2023, The Role of Twitter in Media Coverage during Humanitarian Crises. Data mining from International News Agencies. in J Maldonado-Mahauad, J Herrera-Tapia, JL Zambrano-Martínez, S Berrezueta & S Berrezueta (eds), Information and Communication Technologies - 11th Ecuadorian Conference, TICEC 2023, Proceedings. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1885 CCIS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 83-94, 11th Ecuadorian Congress of Information and Communication Technologies, TICEC 2023, Cuenca, Ecuador, 18/10/23. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45438-7_6

The Role of Twitter in Media Coverage during Humanitarian Crises. Data mining from International News Agencies. / Torres-Toukoumidis, Angel; Calle-Pesántez, Sofia E.; Castro, Santiago et al.
Information and Communication Technologies - 11th Ecuadorian Conference, TICEC 2023, Proceedings. ed. / Jorge Maldonado-Mahauad; Jorge Herrera-Tapia; Jorge Luis Zambrano-Martínez; Santiago Berrezueta; Santiago Berrezueta. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. p. 83-94 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1885 CCIS).

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Torres-Toukoumidis A, Calle-Pesántez SE, Castro S, Galán-Mena J. The Role of Twitter in Media Coverage during Humanitarian Crises. Data mining from International News Agencies. In Maldonado-Mahauad J, Herrera-Tapia J, Zambrano-Martínez JL, Berrezueta S, Berrezueta S, editors, Information and Communication Technologies - 11th Ecuadorian Conference, TICEC 2023, Proceedings. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2023. p. 83-94. (Communications in Computer and Information Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-45438-7_6

The Role of Twitter in Media Coverage during Humanitarian Crises. Data mining from International News Agencies

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