Sentiment Analysis toward the COVID-19 Vaccine in the Main Latin American Media on Twitter: The Cases of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru
This article analyzes the media coverage of the COVID-19 vaccine by major media outlets in five Latin American countries: Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, and Peru. For this purpose, the XLM-roBERTa model was applied and the sentiments of all tweets published between January 2020 and June 2023 (&...
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| author | Alba Córdoba-Cabús Manuel García-Borrego Yaiza Ceballos |
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| description | This article analyzes the media coverage of the COVID-19 vaccine by major media outlets in five Latin American countries: Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, and Peru. For this purpose, the XLM-roBERTa model was applied and the sentiments of all tweets published between January 2020 and June 2023 (<i>n</i> = 24,243) by the five outlets with the greatest online reach in each country were analyzed. The results show that the sentiment in the overall media and in each nation studied was mostly negative, and only at the beginning of the pandemic was there some positivity. In recent months, negative sentiment has increased twelvefold over positive sentiment, and has also garnered many more interactions than positive sentiment. The differences by platform and country are minimal, but there are markedly negative media, some more inclined to neutrality, and only one where positive sentiment predominates. This paper questions the role of journalism in Latin America during a health crisis as serious as that of the coronavirus, in which, instead of the expected neutrality, or even a certain message of hope, the media seem to have been dragged along by the negativity promoted by certain discourses far removed from scientific evidence. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-413e34d6442d4207a4c4e63c099887c92023-11-19T18:25:04ZengMDPI AGVaccines2076-393X2023-10-011110159210.3390/vaccines11101592Sentiment Analysis toward the COVID-19 Vaccine in the Main Latin American Media on Twitter: The Cases of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and PeruAlba Córdoba-Cabús0Manuel García-Borrego1Yaiza Ceballos2Department of Journalism, Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Malaga, 29071 Málaga, SpainDepartment of Journalism, Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Malaga, 29071 Málaga, SpainDepartment of Journalism, Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Malaga, 29071 Málaga, SpainThis article analyzes the media coverage of the COVID-19 vaccine by major media outlets in five Latin American countries: Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, and Peru. For this purpose, the XLM-roBERTa model was applied and the sentiments of all tweets published between January 2020 and June 2023 (<i>n</i> = 24,243) by the five outlets with the greatest online reach in each country were analyzed. The results show that the sentiment in the overall media and in each nation studied was mostly negative, and only at the beginning of the pandemic was there some positivity. In recent months, negative sentiment has increased twelvefold over positive sentiment, and has also garnered many more interactions than positive sentiment. The differences by platform and country are minimal, but there are markedly negative media, some more inclined to neutrality, and only one where positive sentiment predominates. This paper questions the role of journalism in Latin America during a health crisis as serious as that of the coronavirus, in which, instead of the expected neutrality, or even a certain message of hope, the media seem to have been dragged along by the negativity promoted by certain discourses far removed from scientific evidence.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/11/10/1592vaccinevaccinationCOVID-19coronavirussentiment analysisLatin America |
| spellingShingle | Alba Córdoba-Cabús Manuel García-Borrego Yaiza Ceballos Sentiment Analysis toward the COVID-19 Vaccine in the Main Latin American Media on Twitter: The Cases of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru Vaccines vaccine vaccination COVID-19 coronavirus sentiment analysis Latin America |
| title | Sentiment Analysis toward the COVID-19 Vaccine in the Main Latin American Media on Twitter: The Cases of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru |
| title_full | Sentiment Analysis toward the COVID-19 Vaccine in the Main Latin American Media on Twitter: The Cases of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru |
| title_fullStr | Sentiment Analysis toward the COVID-19 Vaccine in the Main Latin American Media on Twitter: The Cases of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sentiment Analysis toward the COVID-19 Vaccine in the Main Latin American Media on Twitter: The Cases of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru |
| title_short | Sentiment Analysis toward the COVID-19 Vaccine in the Main Latin American Media on Twitter: The Cases of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru |
| title_sort | sentiment analysis toward the covid 19 vaccine in the main latin american media on twitter the cases of argentina chile colombia mexico and peru |
| topic | vaccine vaccination COVID-19 coronavirus sentiment analysis Latin America |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/11/10/1592 |
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