Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: LARISSA DE MEDEIROS TORRES SANTOS

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LARISSA DE MEDEIROS TORRES SANTOS
DATE: 25/06/2021
TIME: 16:00
LOCAL: Remoto
TITLE:

An Empirical Analysis of Expressions of Moral Values a
from Twitter hashtags

KEY WORDS:

morality, natural language processing, twitter, portuguese language,
analysis of content.

PAGES: 42
BIG AREA: Outra
AREA: Multidisciplinar
SUMMARY:

In the search for academic articles based on the Theory of Moral Foundations applied to
texts in Portuguese, the scarcity of scientific material on the subject is noted.
The analysis proposed in this research deals with the identification of some characteristics.
cultural stics of Portuguese-speakers, mainly from the point of view of
morality of these individuals. It also discusses the opinions of the collective of active individuals
on the social network Twitter, and highlights the characteristics of discursive narratives in this environment. It is known that the language used by individuals is a reflection of their thoughts, emotions,
values, culture, and a means of communication and interaction with other members of society.
Therefore, analyzing the content of digital texts from Brazilian Portuguese speakers is necessary
to identify the expressions of moral values present in the texts. For this, the
exploratory research method, with the technical procedure of analysis of ethical content
in association with topic modeling as a natural language processing technique.
We collected 230,215 textual data from interactions of users of the social network Twitter, for the period
April 14-20, 2021, containing at least one of the hashtags: #caemcasa, #pandemic,
#forabolsonaro, #closedcombolsonaro. Textual expressions associated with values were analyzed.
morals of the subjects who interacted in this social network from the tweets collected, al in
of the general characteristics of these texts. Finally, it was concluded that textual data from networks
Virtual social media are rich content for observing the behavior and personal opinions of
Portuguese-speaking individuals on controversial issues such as isolation
social in times of pandemic and as a political position.

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