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SUBMITTER: Gilardi F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8242806 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gilardi Fabrizio F Gessler Theresa T Kubli Maël M Müller Stefan S
Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Politikwissenschaft = Revue suisse de science politique = Swiss political science review 20210525 2
We study the role of social media in debates regarding two policy responses to COVID-19 in Switzerland: face-mask rules and contact-tracing apps. We use a dictionary classifier to categorize 612'177 tweets by parties, politicians, and the public as well as 441'458 articles published in 76 newspapers between February and August 2020. We distinguish between "problem" (COVID-19) and "solutions" (face masks and contact-tracing apps) and, using a vector autoregression approach, we analyze the relatio ...[more]