Populism and Negative Emotions within the Italian Politics: A Twitter-based Analysis Francesca Carbone, Arianna Grasso, Francesco Santelli To cite this version: Francesca Carbone, Arianna Grasso, Francesco Santelli. Populism and Negative Emotions within the Italian Politics: A Twitter-based Analysis. Journées internationales d’Analyse statistique des Données Textuelles (JADT 2020), Jun 2020, Toulouse, France. hal-03173949 HAL Id: hal-03173949 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03173949 Submitted on 18 Mar 2021 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Populism and Negative Emotions within the Italian Politics: A Twitter-based Analysis Francesca Carbone1, Arianna Grasso1, Francesco Santelli2 1University of Naples “L’Orientale” –
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[email protected] Abstract While conceptualizing populism as “a cultural-relational performative style” (Moffitt et al. 2016), this paper seeks to explore whether and the extent to which semantic categories of populism and the emotional frames of anger and fear are combined in the tweets posted by selected Italian politicians and political parties on their Twitter account. Methodologically, a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches was adopted: Content Analysis, to pinpoint recurrent thematic patterns that are relevant to the research purpose; as well as approaches of Multiple Correspondence Analysis, to verify whether the combination of the chosen variables is recurrent within the Twitter corpus purposely built for the analysis.