Characterizing partisan political narrative frameworks about COVID-19 on Twitter.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis that has been testing every society and exposing the critical role of local politics in crisis response. In the United States, there has been a strong partisan divide between the Democratic and Republican party's narratives about the pandemic which resulted in polarization of individual behaviors and divergent policy adoption across regions. As shown in this case, as well as in most major social issues, strongly polarized narrative frameworks facilitate such narratives. To understand polarization and other social chasms, it is critical to dissect these diverging narratives. Here, taking the Democratic and Republican political social media posts about the pandemic as a case study, we demonstrate that a combination of computational methods can provide

SUBMITTER: Jing E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8556838 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature