The relationship between public sentiment and the media on the 2022 national elections in the Philippines using granger causality

The reliance on local news outlets for information may have a significant influence on people’s opinions and sentiments, especially with a trending topic as the 2022 National Elections. This study aimed to verify this by investigating the existence and direction of that influence. Public tweets rega...

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Main Authors: Chen, Fong-Xiang Gracia, Gutierrez, Alyssa Erin Quetingco
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spelling oai:animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph:etdb_math-10022022-07-11T04:01:49Z The relationship between public sentiment and the media on the 2022 national elections in the Philippines using granger causality Chen, Fong-Xiang Gracia Gutierrez, Alyssa Erin Quetingco The reliance on local news outlets for information may have a significant influence on people’s opinions and sentiments, especially with a trending topic as the 2022 National Elections. This study aimed to verify this by investigating the existence and direction of that influence. Public tweets regarding this election were collected from the general public and the top 5 local news outlets. These were classified into positive, negative, or neutral via sentiment analysis using VADER. Using the proportion of positive and negative tweets per day for each group, autoregressive (AR) and vector autoregressive (VAR) models were fitted to each time series variable. Presence and direction of a causal relationship between each pair of variables was determined using Granger Causality. This showed that sentiment of news tweets had a Granger causal effect on the sentiment of the general public, thereby highlighting the influence of the news that people consume towards their own sentiments. 2022-07-04T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdb_math/5 https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=etdb_math Mathematics and Statistics Bachelor's Theses English Animo Repository Election--Philippines Sentiment analysis Mathematics
institution De La Salle University
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Philippines
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topic Election--Philippines
Sentiment analysis
Mathematics
spellingShingle Election--Philippines
Sentiment analysis
Mathematics
Chen, Fong-Xiang Gracia
Gutierrez, Alyssa Erin Quetingco
The relationship between public sentiment and the media on the 2022 national elections in the Philippines using granger causality
description The reliance on local news outlets for information may have a significant influence on people’s opinions and sentiments, especially with a trending topic as the 2022 National Elections. This study aimed to verify this by investigating the existence and direction of that influence. Public tweets regarding this election were collected from the general public and the top 5 local news outlets. These were classified into positive, negative, or neutral via sentiment analysis using VADER. Using the proportion of positive and negative tweets per day for each group, autoregressive (AR) and vector autoregressive (VAR) models were fitted to each time series variable. Presence and direction of a causal relationship between each pair of variables was determined using Granger Causality. This showed that sentiment of news tweets had a Granger causal effect on the sentiment of the general public, thereby highlighting the influence of the news that people consume towards their own sentiments.
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author Chen, Fong-Xiang Gracia
Gutierrez, Alyssa Erin Quetingco
author_facet Chen, Fong-Xiang Gracia
Gutierrez, Alyssa Erin Quetingco
author_sort Chen, Fong-Xiang Gracia
title The relationship between public sentiment and the media on the 2022 national elections in the Philippines using granger causality
title_short The relationship between public sentiment and the media on the 2022 national elections in the Philippines using granger causality
title_full The relationship between public sentiment and the media on the 2022 national elections in the Philippines using granger causality
title_fullStr The relationship between public sentiment and the media on the 2022 national elections in the Philippines using granger causality
title_full_unstemmed The relationship between public sentiment and the media on the 2022 national elections in the Philippines using granger causality
title_sort relationship between public sentiment and the media on the 2022 national elections in the philippines using granger causality
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