Understanding Public Perception of Waste Management in Western Balkans using Tweets and News Reports Analysis
Date Issued
2022
Author(s)
Gjorshoska, Ivana
Madjar, Angela
Prodanova, Jana
Abstract
The rapid urbanization and economic growth
greatly contribute to the increasing amount of produced solid
waste worldwide. As part of their pro-European policies, many
countries from the Western Balkans have started to accept
and apply the EU Waste Management Law in their legal
systems as well as in practice in order to create adequate waste
management schemes. The aim of this paper is to analyze the
public response regarding waste management regulations and
practices using Twitter and News reports data analysis within
a period of four months, between November 1st, 2021 and
February 28th, 2022. Sentiment analysis and Dynamic Topic
Modeling were used to assess the public attitude in both news
reports and Twitter responses, in addition to bigrams similarity
using soft cosine measure to determine the semantic correlation
between the two sources. The results suggest that there is a
predominantly negative attitudes towards waste practices in
both media outlets. Additionally, there is a strong semantic
correlation between the discussed topics in news reports and
on social media, leading to the conclusion that news outlets
play a major role in promoting pro-environmental behavior in
the general public in Western Balkans.
greatly contribute to the increasing amount of produced solid
waste worldwide. As part of their pro-European policies, many
countries from the Western Balkans have started to accept
and apply the EU Waste Management Law in their legal
systems as well as in practice in order to create adequate waste
management schemes. The aim of this paper is to analyze the
public response regarding waste management regulations and
practices using Twitter and News reports data analysis within
a period of four months, between November 1st, 2021 and
February 28th, 2022. Sentiment analysis and Dynamic Topic
Modeling were used to assess the public attitude in both news
reports and Twitter responses, in addition to bigrams similarity
using soft cosine measure to determine the semantic correlation
between the two sources. The results suggest that there is a
predominantly negative attitudes towards waste practices in
both media outlets. Additionally, there is a strong semantic
correlation between the discussed topics in news reports and
on social media, leading to the conclusion that news outlets
play a major role in promoting pro-environmental behavior in
the general public in Western Balkans.
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