Exploring repost features of police-generated microblogs through topic and sentiment analysis
ISSN: 0264-0473
Article publication date: 14 August 2019
Issue publication date: 6 September 2019
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to explore the repost features of microblogs acting to promote the information diffusion of government-generated content on social media.
Design/methodology/approach
This study proposes a topic−sentiment analysis using a mixed social media analytics framework to analyse the microblogs collected from the Sina Weibo accounts of 30 Chinese provincial police departments. On the basis of this analysis, this study presents the distribution of reposted microblogs and reveals the reposting characteristics of police-generated microblogs (PGMs).
Findings
The experimental results indicate that children’s safety and crime-related PGMs with a positive sentiment can achieve a high level of online information diffusion.
Originality/value
This study is novel, as it reveals the reposting features of PGMs from both a topic and sentiment perspectives, and provides new findings that can inspire users’ reposting behaviour.
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Citation
Tang, X., Li, S., Gu, N. and Tan, M. (2019), "Exploring repost features of police-generated microblogs through topic and sentiment analysis", The Electronic Library, Vol. 37 No. 4, pp. 607-623. https://doi.org/10.1108/EL-02-2019-0044
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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