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- Title
- Bilingual Sentiment Analysis of Spanglish Tweets.
- Creator
- Serrano, Melissa, Shankar, Ravi, Florida Atlantic University, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Abstract/Description
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Sentiment Analysis has been researched in a variety of contexts but in this thesis, the focus is on sentiment analysis in Twitter, which poses its own unique challenges such as the use of slang, abbreviations, emoticons, hashtags, and user mentions. The 140-character restriction on the length of tweets can also lead to text that is difficult even for a human to determine its sentiment. Specifically, this study will analyze sentiment analysis of bilingual (U.S. English and Spanish language)...
Show moreSentiment Analysis has been researched in a variety of contexts but in this thesis, the focus is on sentiment analysis in Twitter, which poses its own unique challenges such as the use of slang, abbreviations, emoticons, hashtags, and user mentions. The 140-character restriction on the length of tweets can also lead to text that is difficult even for a human to determine its sentiment. Specifically, this study will analyze sentiment analysis of bilingual (U.S. English and Spanish language) Tweets. The hypothesis here is that Bilingual sentiment analysis is more accurate than sentiment analysis in a single language (English or Spanish) when analyzing bilingual tweets. In general, currently sentiment analysis in bilingual tweets is done against an English dictionary. For each of the test cases in this thesis’ experiment we will use the Python NLTK sentiment package.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004877, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004877
- Subject Headings
- Twitter., Online social networks., Connotation (Linguistics), Mass media--Audiences., Spanish language--Usage.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Flesh impressions: Television texts of cosmetic surgery and audience negotiation.
- Creator
- Hutton, Heather O'Neil., Florida Atlantic University, Scodari, Christine
- Abstract/Description
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Both incredibly personal and inherently social, cosmetic surgery procedures intended to reconfigure the body toward a more culturally acceptable physicality and the increase in television representations of the phenomenon provoke a complex debate regarding the social, psychological, medical and ethical implications of such practices. This thesis raises the question: Do television texts of cosmetic surgery and their potential consumers reproduce or challenge the hegemony of cosmetic surgery as...
Show moreBoth incredibly personal and inherently social, cosmetic surgery procedures intended to reconfigure the body toward a more culturally acceptable physicality and the increase in television representations of the phenomenon provoke a complex debate regarding the social, psychological, medical and ethical implications of such practices. This thesis raises the question: Do television texts of cosmetic surgery and their potential consumers reproduce or challenge the hegemony of cosmetic surgery as a cultural practice? Using qualitative, social scientific methodology to analyze current examples of such television texts and study viewer negotiation of these texts, the study concludes that television texts are most likely to present cosmetic surgery in ways that perpetuate hegemonic notions of beauty, and that while viewers may negotiate readings that suit their preconceived notions of cosmetic surgery, they are unlikely to condemn such messages for fear of compromising an individual's power to choose cosmetic surgery for "acceptable reasons" such as improved self-esteem or social acceptance.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2004
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13127
- Subject Headings
- Surgery, Plastic--Social aspects, Body image--Social aspects, Mass media--Research, Mass media--Audiences
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Coverage of the Middle East in three Cox newspapers in areas with different size Jewish populations.
- Creator
- Dickerson, Mark Allen., Florida Atlantic University, Smith, Voncile
- Abstract/Description
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Do newspapers consider their readership and its interests when choosing which news to print? The Palm Beach Post, the Austin American-Statesman and the Dayton Daily News--all owned by Cox Enterprises--serve metropolitan areas with widely varying Jewish populations. A content analysis--including story length, placement and use of graphic elements--of newspapers printed in March and July 1994 looks at whether coverage of the Middle East varies among the three newspapers.
- Date Issued
- 1997
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15450
- Subject Headings
- Reporters and reporting, Newspapers--Objectivity, Mass media--Audiences, Content analysis (Communication), Middle East--In mass media
- Format
- Document (PDF)