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: Received: 5 June 2024 / Approved: 5 June 2024 / Online: 6 June 2024 (04:58:34 CEST)
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Gorostiza-Cerviño, A.; Serna-Ortega, Á.; Moreno-Cabanillas, A.; Almansa-Martínez, A.; Castillo-Esparcia, A. Examining the Roles, Sentiments, and Discourse of European Interest Groups in the Ukrainian War through X (Twitter). Preprints2024, 2024060346. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202406.0346.v1
Gorostiza-Cerviño, A.; Serna-Ortega, Á.; Moreno-Cabanillas, A.; Almansa-Martínez, A.; Castillo-Esparcia, A. Examining the Roles, Sentiments, and Discourse of European Interest Groups in the Ukrainian War through X (Twitter). Preprints 2024, 2024060346. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202406.0346.v1
Gorostiza-Cerviño, A.; Serna-Ortega, Á.; Moreno-Cabanillas, A.; Almansa-Martínez, A.; Castillo-Esparcia, A. Examining the Roles, Sentiments, and Discourse of European Interest Groups in the Ukrainian War through X (Twitter). Preprints2024, 2024060346. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202406.0346.v1
APA Style
Gorostiza-Cerviño, A., Serna-Ortega, Á., Moreno-Cabanillas, A., Almansa-Martínez, A., & Castillo-Esparcia, A. (2024). Examining the Roles, Sentiments, and Discourse of European Interest Groups in the Ukrainian War through X (Twitter). Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202406.0346.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Gorostiza-Cerviño, A., Ana Almansa-Martínez and Antonio Castillo-Esparcia. 2024 "Examining the Roles, Sentiments, and Discourse of European Interest Groups in the Ukrainian War through X (Twitter)" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202406.0346.v1
Abstract
This research focuses on examining the responses of interest groups listed in the European Transparency Register to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Its aim is to investigate the nuanced reactions of 2,579 commercial and business associations and 2,957 companies and groups to the conflict, as expressed through their X (Twitter) activities. Utilizing advanced text mining, NLP and LDA techniques, this study conducts a comprehensive analysis encompassing language dynamics, thematic shifts, sentiment variations, and activity levels exhibited by these entities both before and after the outbreak of the war. The results obtained reflect a progressive decreasing in negative emotions regarding the conflict over time. Likewise, multiple forms of outside lobbying are identified in the communication strategies of interest groups. All in all, this empirical inquiry into how interest groups adapt their messaging in response to complex geopolitical events holds the potential to provide invaluable insights into the multifaceted role of lobbying in shaping public policies.
Keywords
lobbying; European Union (EU); Russia-Ukraine war; X (Twitter); social media; groups of interest
Subject
Social Sciences, Political Science
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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