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Revista Habanera de Ciencias Médicas
On-line version ISSN 1729-519X
Abstract
MENDEZ HERNANDEZ, Giselle María; FONSECA VALIDO, Rafael and ALONSO PEREZ, Milagros. Conversations on Cuban medical delegations in the context of COVID-19 from the info-communicative environment on Twitter. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2021, vol.20, n.5 Epub Oct 10, 2021. ISSN 1729-519X.
Introduction:
The COVID-19 pandemic modifies the info-communicative environment of cyber users. Cuba, in particular, presents a remarkable level of technological development inserted in the Internet social platform, Twitter. This support plays a key role in the debate about issues related to the Cuban medical delegations due to their confrontation with the virus at the international level, which contributes to the formation of a favorable global opinion. The aforementioned point is expressed from the online conversations and their speeches in this site.
Objective:
To characterize the info-communicative environment on Twitter during the online conversations about Cuban medical brigades between December 31, 2020 and January 18, 2021.
Material and Methods:
The hermeneutic theoretical method is used for the description of the results of the statistical processing of content, structure and use on the Web, corresponding to a transdisciplinary approach through the application of Data Mining Technique as an instrument of the unsupervised algorithm SSA-UO for sentiment analysis on Twitter.
Results:
The characteristics of the info-communicative environment on Twitter during the online conversations about Cuban medical delegations evidence a predominance of positive polarity.
Conclusions:
Retweets, mentions and the publication of links influence the particularities of the debate on the topic in the microblogging sphere.
Keywords : COVID-19; health; Cuban medical brigades; info-communicative environment; online conversations; Twitter; polarity.