Sentiments & Emotions
have you ever wondered how the tone of the football community you belong to is?
- We looked at the frequency of words with which football comments are spread.
We were amazed to see that the most common words are:
Among the most common words of all channels we note, as it could be expected, football clubs’ names, both national and international ( such as Juve, Intern, Milan, Napoli, Bologna, Bayern, Roma, Lazio etc.). We can also observe a lot of proper names and nicknames: this recalls our comparison between Twitch and a “digital pub”, an online space where you can find fellow football fans from all over the world and chat with them. Furthermore it can be seen that the tone is mostly positive, with people supporting their teams and laughing.<
Apart from exploring what individual people write, we wanted to check their interactions to see if communities are also created (or divided) around football in the digital world!
We used Pysentimiento, which allowed us to analyse both languages without the limitation of language; it is wonderful that communities can be united despite speaking different languages!
Sentiment statistics
- Italian channels.
- Argentinian channels.
Accordingly, if we look at the tone of the channels, the Argentinian ones seem to be more negative than positive, with the majority of messages being labeled as neutral, while the Italian channels are balanced between the two sentiments.
In addition, there is more variability inside the Italian channels with respect to Argentinian ones.
Emotion statistics
Since we have six emotions for the Spanish language and four for the Italian, we plot the results into two different graphs.
- We noticed that the following channels, AJGtv, Inter, Milan, and OCWSport, tend to present higher "joy" levels.
- In contrast, the remaining channels(Controcalcio, HouseofCalcio, Juventibus, TeladoioTokyo, Assodiroma, daje, Fantacalcio, TVPlay) tend to show higher "anger" levels.
- The Argentinian channel Davoo tends to present high levels of ‘joy’ while La Cobra both 'disgust’ and ‘joy’.
- It is interesting also to see the scarcity of “sadness” as a negative emotion: people tend to be more angry than sad while discussing football.
This brings us back to our initial question: Does football unite or divide?
This is why we wanted to deepen our analysis by identifying “friendly” or “enemy” communities within the channels.
Are you also curious to discover what we found?
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