Fake News and Indifference to Truth: Dissecting Tweets and State of the Union Addresses by Presidents Obama and Trump

Arbeitspapier

State of the Union Addresses (SOUA) by two recent US Presidents, President Obama (2016) and President Trump (2018), and a series of recent of tweets by President Trump, are analysed by means of the data mining technique, sentiment analysis. The intention is to explore the contents and sentiments of the messages contained, the degree to which they differ, and their potential implications for the national mood and state of the economy. President Trump's 2018 SOUA and his sample tweets are identified as being more positive in sentiment than President Obama's 2016 SOUA. This is confirmed by bootstrapped t tests and non-parametric sign tests on components of the respective sentiment scores. The issue of whether overly positive pronouncements amount to self-promotion, rather than intrinsic merit or sentiment, is a topic for future research.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. TI 2018-020/III

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs: Other Computer Software ; Operations Research; Statistical Decision Theory
• Thema: Sentiment Analysis ; Polarity ; Bootstrapped t tests ; Sign tests

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Allen, David E. ; McAleer, Michael ; Reid, David McHardy
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Tinbergen Institute
• (wo): Amsterdam and Rotterdam
• (wann): 2018

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/177710
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ