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Enthusiasm and support: alternative sentiment classification for social movements on social media

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We present a novel sentiment classifier particularly designed for modeling and analyzing social movements; capturing levels of support (supportive versus non-supportive) and degrees of enthusiasm (enthusiastic versus passive). The resulting computational solution can help organizations involved with social causes to disseminate messages in a more informed and effective fashion; potentially leading to greater impact. Our findings suggest that enthusiastic and supportive tweets are more prevalent in tweets about social causes than other types of tweets on Twitter.

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      WebSci '14: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM conference on Web science
      June 2014
      318 pages
      ISBN:9781450326223
      DOI:10.1145/2615569

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      • Published: 23 June 2014

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