{"id":41331,"date":"2018-01-16T03:32:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T06:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=41331"},"modified":"2018-01-16T03:32:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T06:32:10","slug":"the-baixada-fluminense-on-twitter-an-analysis-of-news-and-perceptions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=41331","title":{"rendered":"The Baixada Fluminense on Twitter: An Analysis of News and Perceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the original article in Portuguese by F\u00e1bio Silva published by data_labe click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

How do you refer to the place where you live? How do you perceive your space and how do you interact with it? Do you frequently speak about your city on the Internet? Does the way you perceive your territory have something to do with how mainstream newspapers<\/a> refer to it? Based on these questions, I decided to investigate the predominant narratives<\/a> about the Baixada Fluminense<\/a> on Twitter and in two high-readership newspapers\u2014O Dia<\/em> and Extra<\/em>\u2014between June 1 and 15, 2016.\u00a0The result of this investigation shows that the theme of violence still draws the majority of news reports<\/a> and sparks opinion statements on social media<\/a> regarding the Baixada Fluminense. However, themes of politics and culture<\/a> are much more prominent across opinion statements, without receiving the same level of coverage in the major newspapers.<\/p>\n

During the first half of June 2016 I collected more than 700 tweets related to the Baixada Fluminense, dividing them into either “News” or “Opinion” and classifying them according to the topics they focused on.<\/p>\n

News topics mentioned on Twitter covering the Baixada Fluminense:<\/h2>\n