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Topic Analysis of Social Media Posts during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Tweets in Turkish

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  • Ioan Batrancea

    (Department of Economics and Business Administration, Babes-Bolyai University)

  • Mehmet Ali Balcı

    (Department of Mathematics, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University)

  • Larissa M. Batrancea

    (Department of Business, Babes-Bolyai University)

  • Ömer Akgüller

    (Department of Mathematics, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University)

  • Horia Tulai

    (Department of Economics and Business Administration, Babes-Bolyai University)

  • Mircea-Iosif Rus

    (National Institute of Research and Development URBAN INCERC)

  • Ema Speranta Masca

    (Faculty of Economics and Law, “George Emil Palade” University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology)

  • Ioan Dan Morar

    (Faculty of Economics, University of Oradea)

Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyze the shift in the social media discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample included Turkish users on Twitter, who shared opinions about the pandemic between March 9 and October 31, 2020. The collected tweets were first classified with the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) architecture, which used the global vector for word representation embedding method. In addition, due to the grammatical and semantic structure of the Turkish language, we employed the Zemberek library for the text pre-processing stage. We analyzed data according to two categories: user-to-public posts and user-to-user posts. User-to-user data were investigated with effective social network analysis techniques. Empirical results showed that Twitter users posted and disseminated information mainly related to economy, politics and world topics.

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  • Ioan Batrancea & Mehmet Ali Balcı & Larissa M. Batrancea & Ömer Akgüller & Horia Tulai & Mircea-Iosif Rus & Ema Speranta Masca & Ioan Dan Morar, 2024. "Topic Analysis of Social Media Posts during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Tweets in Turkish," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 15(3), pages 12361-12391, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jknowl:v:15:y:2024:i:3:d:10.1007_s13132-023-01565-6
    DOI: 10.1007/s13132-023-01565-6
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