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Refugee or Migrant? Mixing methods for social media analysis Adina Nerghes D I G I TA L H U M A N I T I E S L A B Digital Humanities Lab Advancing the humanities through digital methods Marieke van Erp Focus on big textual data

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Refugee or Migrant?

Mixing methods for social media analysis Adina Nerghes

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Advancing the humanities through digital methods
Focus on big ‘textual’ data
Interdisciplinary
Events & Entities
Change
Connections

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Melvin Wevers Adina Nerghes Marieke van Erp

Digital Humanities Lab

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Refugee crisis in a nutshell

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Debates on the refugee crisis in social media

‘refugee crisis’ and ‘migrant crisis’ widely

used in news and social media

‘Refugee’ – people fleeing conflict or

persecution

‘Migrant’ – improving economic situation

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Label use:

Alter perceptions
Influence behaviors
Undermine public support
Steer public opinion

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What are the patterns of label use in

nline discussion of the European

refugee/migrant crisis and what are the sentiments associated with these labels?

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Mixing methods

Theories drawn from the humanities and

social and communication sciences:

Framing and labelling
Socio-semantic networks
Computer Science and Computational

linguistics:

Topic modelling
Sentiment analysis
Expert knowledge of social media platforms

and the refugee crisis

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20 40 60 80 100 20 40 60 80 100

Oct15 (n = 9556 , d = 0.0059)

Degree Centrality Rank Betweenness Centrality Rank

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Word choice matters

Sentiment ordering of immigrant (most negative) to

migrant to refugee to Syrian may indicate a multidimensional mixture of:

Threat: actors have been portrayed as

constituting a criminal threat to host societies

Agency: actors’ having relatively higher agency in

crossing-borders

Permanence: whether or not actors are expected

to permanently reside in a host country

Economic Cost: refers to the expectation of

economic costs incurred by the presence of these actors in a host country

T H R E AT A G E N C Y P E R M A N E N C E C O S T S

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Framing matters and it affects the ways in which we perceive the world around us!

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Mixing methods in a nutshell

Linguistics approaches and computer science:
Tools and analysis algorithms
Humanities, social sciences and expert knowledge:
Relate data and results to the social context
Different perspectives are not mutually exclusive and

they can inform one another.

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Thank you!

“Solving the refugee crisis begins by changing the way we see them.”

Ben Doherty