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Download file我国足球归化运动员社会认同问题研究:基于社交媒体内容的 情感与主题分析 (The social identity of naturalized footballers in China: social media contents based sentiment and thematic analysis)
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posted on 2021-05-07, 10:50 authored by Tangyun Leng, Alan BairnerAlan Bairner, Jiashu Hu, Shuo YangThe paper explores the social identity of naturalized footballers in China by analyzing replies extracted from the relevant trending topics on Weibo in a diachronic manner. A mixed-method examination of these replies through manually annotated sentiment analysis and theme extraction reveals that: 1) Sentiments about the social identity of naturalized footballers polarize significantly, among which negative emotions being more intense than positive ones; 2) sentiments toward different players are quite diversified; 3) sentiments change markedly from negative to positive over time; 4) “nation and ancestry”, “acculturation and integration” and “competitive level”are the three most discussed themes of online conversations about naturalized players.
Funding
Fundamental Scientific Research Business Expenses Project of Zhejiang Provincial Colleges and Universities (SJWY2021013)
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School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
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China Sport ScienceVolume
41Issue
2Pages
59 - 68Publisher
Zhongguo Tiyu Kexue XuehuiVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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This paper appears here with the permission of the publisher.Acceptance date
2020-12-02Publication date
2021-04-19Copyright date
2021Notes
This paper is written in Chinese. An abstract in English is available at the end of the article.ISSN
1000-677XPublisher version
Language
- zh