Online Memories. A Twitter data analysis

• The fifth report of the series “Online Memories” brings the analysis of Twitter data content related to three memorial commemorations corresponding to the first half of 2021;
• Some of these events are sampled for the third consecutive year, enabling us to gain a good comparative basis on their evolution;
• The report also includes a new event, May Day (International Workers’ Day), a global celebration that shall be present in the forthcoming reports on a continuous basis.

Fake news and hate speech discourses were not invented by the Internet, but in this medium they find a greater multiplicity of circuits through which to penetrate among users.

 

Texts: Celeste Muñoz Martínez
Data collection: Mariluz Congosto