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Studying Online Public Debate on Freedom of the Press in South Korea : Natural Language Processing of Tweets

한국 언론의 자유에 대한 온라인 공개 토론 연구: 트윗의 자연어 처리

초록 (요약문)

The present study experimentally sets out to investigate, through analysis of public online discourse with Natural Language Processing techniques, press freedom since Yoon Suk-yeol took office in May 2022 as President of the Republic of Korea. By performing topic modeling with LDA, keyword extraction with TF-IDF and clustering with K-means to a dataset of posts scraped from social media Twitter, we found that there is the public perception that press freedom seems to have started deteriorating in the short period of time Yoon has been President. The conflict seems to be related around the antagonistic relationship between President Yoon and the public broadcaster Munwha Broadcasting Corporation (MBC). Among the findings, we detected that the existing anti-press discourse persists in a notably polarized online environment.

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