Representation of Immigration in ten countries

The goal of the work package is partly to analyse how Europe is represented through the topic of immigration in a representative sample from 10 different European countries. To achieve this, social media discussions from Facebook and Twitter were downloaded from European countries and a theoretical framework of social media representations was developed. The theoretical framework was operationalised so that a smaller part of the downloaded data could be manually coded by partners in each of the 10 European countries. Thereafter, machine learning models were trained on the manually coded data to automatically code, among others, the social media representations and sentiments present in the all the downloaded posts.