A Case Study of Analysis of Construals in Language on Social Media Surrounding a Crisis Event
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Lolo Aboufoul, Khyati Mahajan, Tiffany Gallicano, Sara Levens, Samira Shaikh
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The events that took place at the Unite the Right rally held in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 11-12, 2017 caused intense reaction on social media from users across the political spectrum. We present a novel application of psycholinguistics - specifically, construal level theory - to analyze the language on social media around this event of social import through topic models. We find that including psycholinguistic measures of concreteness as covariates in topic models can lead to informed analysis of the language surrounding an event of political import.