Attitudes towards Refugees in Light of the Paris Attacks
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چکیده
The Paris attacks prompted a massive response on social media including Twitter. This paper explores the immediate response of English speakers on Twitter towards Middle Eastern refugees in Europe. We show that antagonism towards refugees is mostly coming from the United States and is mostly partisan.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1512.04310 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015