Open Access#SochiProblems: Ignorance or Arrogance? / #SochiProblems: ¿ignorancia o arrogancia?
Author(s) -
Alexander Laskin
Publication year - 2014
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.5783/rirp-8-2014-09-161-180
Subject(s) - ignorance , framing (construction) , sample (material) , computer science , political science , geography , law , chemistry , archaeology , chromatography
The study focuses on the twitter conversations about the XXII Winter Olympics Games in Sochi, Russia. Specifically, the study collects and performs content analysis of the tweets tagged with the hashtag #SochiProblems. This study draws a random sample of tweets from every day of the games to achieve a 99% confidence level with 5% confidence interval and uses the framing theory to analyze this sample. The results allow us to determine what substantive and affective frames dominated in the twitter conversations tagged with #SochiProblems hashtag and what was the main focus of the tweets’ content