Europe Media Monitor & Social Media Text Mining & Analysis Competence Centre

Charles Macmillan, DG JRC.I.3

EMM and textual data

● Gathers ● Enriches ● Selects ● Presents

Finding perhaps 100 relevant articles a day from 300 000

Social media

● Direct link with citizens ● No barrier to publication ● Main news source for many

Challenges ● Who is posting? ● What is their agenda? ● Volume of data

Social media in EMM

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Summary

● EMM provides tailored information streams to inform policy makers

● Social Media increasingly integrated

● We look forward to future collaborations!

JRC-TMA-CC@ec.europa.eu

http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html

JRC-TMA-CC@ec.europa.eu

Attitudes towards refugees in Twitter

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We should not let refugees in

We should let refugees in and help them

Economic concerns

Security concerns

Social concerns

Cultural concerns

Refugee related topics

Attitudes towards refugees in Twitter

Trends in Twitter sentiment

Trends in Twitter sentiment

Trends in Twitter sentiment

Trends in Twitter sentiment