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Experimental Study Sp2
Experimental Study Sp2
Why?
• Minimizes for geo-temporal cofounds/randomize by using
Twitter data sets from similar regions and similar times of
the year in a treatment (2020) and a control (2019) year.
Does social media language reflects the major
psychosocial concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic?
US Population (Geolocation)
Outcome Variable
• Self-disclosure on social media during pandemic 2021
Strengths Limitations
Twitter as a data source that provides us to Lack of transparancy related to the twitter streaming API
unobstrusive access to large-scale and
naturalistic data of people’s candid self-
disclosure and that it has been a valuable Can not define based on our data wether there were
increased or decreased twitter postings during our covid-19
source to study disaster and crisis response. study period