Document Type
Other
Publication Date
12-6-2010
Course
Global Political Communication (030:166:001)
Instructor
G. R. Boynton
Twitter Search Words
Korean attacks, Korea
Search Start Date
November 28th, 2010
Search End Date
December 1st, 2010
Keywords
North Korea, South Korea, Korea, attacks
Abstract
On November 23, 2010 North Korea attacked South Korea, and this attack became a global issue. As news spread about the attack, more people voiced their opinion over Twitter and other communication media such as facebook and MySpace about the event itself and how and if the US should respond. From our results, we compare how the increase in volumes of messages and the number of languages for a recent event (Korean attacks) relates to an ongoing topic (Afghanistan). As our main focus is global communication, the reaction to the recent Korean attacks via Twitter demonstrates how quickly an event can become a global issue of importance around the world.
Total Messages
1,193
Rights
Copyright 2010 Lauren Groeper, Andrea Bunting, Emilie Lee
URL
http://ir.uiowa.edu/polisci_nmp/197