Date of Award
5-2-2018
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Geosciences
First Advisor
Dajun Dai
Second Advisor
Jeremy Diem
Third Advisor
Lawrence Kiage
Abstract
Terrorist attacks have a significant impact on human lives. This study examined emotional responses after the terrorist attacks in London in March and June of 2017, respectively. This research extracted tweets related to the two attacks by developing a Python tool interacting with the Twitter Application Program Interface (API). The tweets were analyzed for its negative emotion expression such as sadness. This study then analyzed these negative tweets using the space-time permutation model in SatScan and assessed their variation in space and time. Results suggested two significant clusters of negative tweets after the first attack. These clusters located in the metropolitan area of London and between Manchester and Liverpool within ten days of the attack. The findings may contribute to quick surveillance of emotional responses on the Twitter users.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/12007502
Recommended Citation
Wang, Ruixue, "Spatiotemporal Variation in Emotional Responses to 2017 Terrorist Attacks in London Using Twitter Data." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2018.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/12007502