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Towards Understanding Polarization, and Its Life on Social MediaAuthor: Ashutosh Ranjan Ranjan Date: 2021-03-18 Report no: IIIT/TH/2021/20 Advisor:Dipti Misra Sharma,Radhika Krishnan AbstractThis work is an attempt to study polarization on social media data, in the Indian context. We focuson multiple controversial and talked about events and topics in the context of India, namely 1) theSabarimala Temple (located in Kerala, India) incident which became a nationwide controversy whentwo women under the age of 50 secretly entered the temple breaking a long standing temple rule thatdisallowed women of menstruating age (10-50) to enter the temple and 2) the Indian government’s moveto demonetise all existing 500 and 1000 denomination banknotes, comprising of 86% of the currencyin circulation, in November 2016 3) The Pulwama-Balakot incidents and its effect on popular sentimenttowards India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi 4) Social media activity on events surrounding multiplelynching incidents from 2017 to 2019 and 5) the Indian Economy from 2013 to 2019 and popularresponse towards it on social media. We gather tweets from news media, and from common people onTwitter around these events in various time periods. Then, we pre-process and annotate them with theirsentiment polarity and emotional category, and analyse trends to help us understand changing polarityover time around controversial events. While this study tries to find trends and patterns to decode theaspect of polarization in India’s social fabric, it’s also a case study on all these events and how Indiareacted to each one of them. The tweets collected are in English, Hindi and code-mixed Hindi-English. Full thesis: pdf Centre for Language Technologies Research Centre |
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