Spatial-temporal Analysis of Emotions in Society in News

doi:10.11947/j.JGGS.2022.0210

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Spatial-temporal analysis of emotions in society has become popular in many studies integrating geography with the humanities, and has shown its influence on social sensing and geo-computation for social sciences. Emotions in society are often volatile, irrational, and vulnerable to the social environment. A critical challenge is to analyze changes in long-term and large-scale emotions in society. In this paper, we propose exploiting this challenge by using spatial-temporal analysis. After extracting emotional, temporal, and spatial information, a spatial standardization approach based on adataset of administrative district changes addresses the problem of Chinese toponym changes. Finally, over 1.7 million news data from the People’s Daily from 1956 to 2014 were collected to explore the changes, spatial distribution, and driving factors of emotions in society using spatial-temporal analysis. The experimental results found that the spatial-temporal analysis of emotions in society in the news is consistent with the results of related sociological research.

Key words: spatial-temporal analysis; emotional change; newsdata; social sensing; long-term and large-scale emotion

An HUAI,Xueying ZHANG,Weicheng AI,Tianyang CAO. Spatial-temporal Analysis of Emotions in Society in News[J]. Journal of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science, 2022, 5(2): 98-110.

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Time	Title		Text
2014.12.23	“Sunshine House”has laughters		On December 22, employees of Shanghai Happy Valley came to a private charity organization called“Sunshine House”in Songjiang to send warmth and joy to the mentally disabled students here. The picture shows the funny clown interacting with the students.
…	…	…

Before normalization	After normalization
In the early hours of the April 15	April 15, 2006, early morning
Early moring of the April 16	April 16, 2006, early morning
According to the current	April 16, 2006, early morning
April 13	April 13, 2006
April 13, 18:00	April 13, 2006 at 18:00
Current	April 13, 2006 at 18:00
…	…

1956	2020
Zhejiang Province → Jiaxing Prefecture → Lin’an County	Zhejiang Province → Hangzhou City → Lin’an District
Anhui Province → Wuhu Prefecture → Jing County	Anhui Province → Xuancheng City → Jing County
Anhui Province → Wuhu Prefecture → Lujiang County	Anhui Province → Hefei City → Lujiang County
Henan Province → Shangqiu Prefecture → Xiangcheng County	Henan Province → Zhoukou City → Xiangcheng City
Henan Province → Shangqiu Prefecture → Taikang County	Henan Province → Zhoukou City → Taikang County
Shanxi Province → Changzhi Prefecture → Lingchuan County	Shanxi Province → Jincheng City → Lingchuan County
Shanxi Province → South Shanxi Prefecture → Fenxi County	Shanxi Province → Linfen City → Fenxi County
…	…

Geographical regions	Included provinces
Northeast region	Heilongjiang Province, Jilin Province, Liaoning Province
North China region	Beijing, Tianjin,Hebei Province, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Shanxi Province
Central China region	Henan Province, Hubei Province, Hunan Province
East China region	Shandong Province, Jiangsu Province, Anhui Province, Shanghai, Zhejiang Province, Fujian Province, Jiangxi Province
South China region	Guangdong Province, Guangxi Province, Hainan Province
Northwest region	Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Qinghai Province, Gansu Province, Shaanxi Province
Southwest region	Tibet Autonomous Region, Sichuan Province, Chongqing City, Yunnan Province,Guizhou Province