Exploring U.S. Shifts in Anti-Asian Sentiment with the Emergence of COVID-19.
Exploring U.S. Shifts in Anti-Asian Sentiment with the Emergence of COVID-19.
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DOI:
10.3390/ijerph17197032
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发表时间:
2020-09-25
影响因子:
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通讯作者:
Nguyen QC
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作者:
Nguyen TT;Criss S;Dwivedi P;Huang D;Keralis J;Hsu E;Phan L;Nguyen LH;Yardi I;Glymour MM;Allen AM;Chae DH;Gee GC;Nguyen QC
Background: Anecdotal reports suggest a rise in anti-Asian racial attitudes and discrimination in response to COVID-19. Racism can have significant social, economic, and health impacts, but there has been little systematic investigation of increases in anti-Asian prejudice. Methods: We utilized Twitter’s Streaming Application Programming Interface (API) to collect 3,377,295 U.S. race-related tweets from November 2019–June 2020. Sentiment analysis was performed using support vector machine (SVM), a supervised machine learning model. Accuracy for identifying negative sentiments, comparing the machine learning model to manually labeled tweets was 91%. We investigated changes in racial sentiment before and following the emergence of COVID-19. Results: The proportion of negative tweets referencing Asians increased by 68.4% (from 9.79% in November to 16.49% in March). In contrast, the proportion of negative tweets referencing other racial/ethnic minorities (Blacks and Latinx) remained relatively stable during this time period, declining less than 1% for tweets referencing Blacks and increasing by 2% for tweets referencing Latinx. Common themes that emerged during the content analysis of a random subsample of 3300 tweets included: racism and blame (20%), anti-racism (20%), and daily life impact (27%). Conclusion: Social media data can be used to provide timely information to investigate shifts in area-level racial sentiment.
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