Social Media and Climate Change: Exploring the Effect of Climate-related Events on Online Discourse using Topic Modelling & Sentiment Analysis

Climate change is an omnipresent issue in politics, industry, science, and society. Scientist knew of its existence for several decades, but only recently has the perception of it shifted from a solely environmental problem to a matter of international security. Climate change is thought to impact the likelihood of extreme weather events,...

Unravelling Twitter chaos during a policy crisis: Applying Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modelling to Tweets about the Dutch Nitrogen Crisis

In May 2019, the Dutch Council of State rejected the national approach for reducing nitrogen emissions in Dutch nature. Farmers were targeted by the policy change: all licenses for agricultural expansion were revoked, affecting the financial livelihoods of farmers. Farmers did not take this well and, using social media platforms, started...