Measuring Nostalgia Rhetoric using Social Media Data

• In Event: What Was and What May Be: Social Media, Nostalgia and Democratic Norms

Brief Overview

We measure nostalgic sentiment for a former dictatorship using social media data from the Philippines. We conduct text-as-data analysis by combining machine learning and human labeling. We validate our measure with various statistical analyses.

Authors

• Sanghoon Kim-Leffingwell, Johns Hopkins University

• Emily Sallenback, Independent Researcher