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Between Fact and Fiction: Elizabeth II’s Funeral and Its Connection to The Crown on X (Twitter)

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  • Raquel Rodríguez-Díaz

    (Departamento de Periodismo y Comunicación Corporativa, Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28942 Madrid, Spain)

  • Palmira Chavero

    (Departamento de Estudios Internacionales y Comunicación, FLACSO Ecuador, Quito 170518, Ecuador)

  • Naftalí Paula-Veloz

    (Comunicación Audiovisual y Publicidad, Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28942 Madrid, Spain)

Abstract

Television series enhance the social visibility of their content, as is the case with Queen Elizabeth II and The Crown. Netflix is the streaming television platform that has turned Peter Morgan’s successful series (2016) into a television icon where the monarch is the main protagonist, taking us on a biographical journey that mixes the historical and the political with fiction. The main character is made to seem more humane and is brought closer to the general public, all of which leads to a transmedia narrative. This research aims to analyze the content of the messages published on Twitter during the days surrounding the Queen’s State funeral in September 2022 and their connection with the series through the hashtag #TheCrown. The topics that have become trends worldwide are quantitatively analyzed, using different digital tools. The sample collected 1,489,279 tweets published during the days from the announcement of the death of Elizabeth II to the day of her funeral (from 8 to 19 September 2022). The results show nodes of connection between different players and linked communities to #TheCrown while offering the traffic generated by the hashtag with different nodes and edges.

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  • Raquel Rodríguez-Díaz & Palmira Chavero & Naftalí Paula-Veloz, 2024. "Between Fact and Fiction: Elizabeth II’s Funeral and Its Connection to The Crown on X (Twitter)," Societies, MDPI, vol. 14(8), pages 1-17, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsoctx:v:14:y:2024:i:8:p:146-:d:1452707
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