Of Hags and bitches. Ageist attitudes in 2016 presidential debate on twitter
Balcerzak Bartlomiej, Nielek Radoslaw
TL;DR
This study explores ageist attitudes in Twitter discussions about the 2016 US presidential election, finding they are rare but mainly directed at Hillary Clinton and linked to her health controversies.
Contribution
It applies natural language processing to analyze ageist content in social media discussions related to political candidates, highlighting the focus on Hillary Clinton.
Findings
Ageist attitudes are infrequent in the discussion.
Most ageist comments target Hillary Clinton.
Ageist remarks about Trump are mostly responses to Clinton's health issues.
Abstract
In this article we present our exploratory research into the occurrence of ageist attitudes within the discussion related to the US 2016 presidential election. We use natural processing techniques to analyze the content tweets related to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Content analysis shows that although ageist attitudes are scarce in the discussion, they are mostly focused on Hillary Clinton rather than Donald Trump. Also, ageist arguments against Donald Trump appear mostly as a reply to controversies connected with the health of Hillary Clinton.
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Taxonomy
TopicsHate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Social Media and Politics · Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining