Upholding dignity during a pandemic via Twitter [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]
Background: This article investigates how people invoked the concept of dignity on Twitter during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a secondary focus on mentions of dignity in the context of older adults and ageing. Methods: We report the results of a study that combines text analytic an...
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| description | Background: This article investigates how people invoked the concept of dignity on Twitter during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a secondary focus on mentions of dignity in the context of older adults and ageing. Methods: We report the results of a study that combines text analytic and interpretive methods to analyze word clusters and dignity-based themes in a cross-national sample of 1,946 original messages posted in 2020. Results: The study finds that dignity discourse on Twitter advances five major themes: (a) recognize dignity as a fundamental right, (b) uphold the dignity of essential workers, (c) preserve the dignity of at-risk populations, (d) prevent cascading disasters that exacerbate dignity's decline, and (e) attend to death, dignity, and the sanctity of life. Conclusions: Moreover, messages focusing on older adults lamented the disproportionate death toll, the terrible circumstances in long-term care homes, the added impact of suspended meal delivery services and the status of older people living below the poverty line. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2a79ba2e3dc84ac58da4b38259c2ec612024-03-19T01:00:01ZengF1000 Research LtdF1000Research2046-14022023-02-0112142542Upholding dignity during a pandemic via Twitter [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]Tracey O'Sullivan0Sarah Fraser1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4291-6298Michael Mulvey2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0183-4173LIFE Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, CanadaLIFE Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, CanadaTelfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, CanadaBackground: This article investigates how people invoked the concept of dignity on Twitter during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a secondary focus on mentions of dignity in the context of older adults and ageing. Methods: We report the results of a study that combines text analytic and interpretive methods to analyze word clusters and dignity-based themes in a cross-national sample of 1,946 original messages posted in 2020. Results: The study finds that dignity discourse on Twitter advances five major themes: (a) recognize dignity as a fundamental right, (b) uphold the dignity of essential workers, (c) preserve the dignity of at-risk populations, (d) prevent cascading disasters that exacerbate dignity's decline, and (e) attend to death, dignity, and the sanctity of life. Conclusions: Moreover, messages focusing on older adults lamented the disproportionate death toll, the terrible circumstances in long-term care homes, the added impact of suspended meal delivery services and the status of older people living below the poverty line.https://f1000research.com/articles/12-183/v1discourse analysis social media text analytics human rights vulnerabilityeng |
| spellingShingle | Tracey O'Sullivan Sarah Fraser Michael Mulvey Upholding dignity during a pandemic via Twitter [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] F1000Research discourse analysis social media text analytics human rights vulnerability eng |
| title | Upholding dignity during a pandemic via Twitter [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] |
| title_full | Upholding dignity during a pandemic via Twitter [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] |
| title_fullStr | Upholding dignity during a pandemic via Twitter [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] |
| title_full_unstemmed | Upholding dignity during a pandemic via Twitter [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] |
| title_short | Upholding dignity during a pandemic via Twitter [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] |
| title_sort | upholding dignity during a pandemic via twitter version 1 peer review 1 approved 2 approved with reservations |
| topic | discourse analysis social media text analytics human rights vulnerability eng |
| url | https://f1000research.com/articles/12-183/v1 |
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