?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Religion+and+Spirituality+on+Social+Media+in+the+Aftermath+of+the+Global+Pandemic&rft.creator=Aduragba%2C+Olanrewaju+Tahir&rft.creator=Yu%2C+Jialin&rft.creator=Cristea%2C+Alexandra+I&rft.description=During+the+COVID-19+pandemic%2C+the+Church+closed+its+physical+doors+for+the+first+time+in+about+800+years%2C+which+is%2C+arguably%2C+a+cataclysmic+event.+Other+religions+have+found+themselves+in+a+similar+situation%2C+and+they+were+practically+forced+to+move+online%2C+which+is+an+unprecedented+occasion.+In+this+paper%2C+we+analyse+this+sudden+change+in+religious+activities+twofold%3A+we+create+and+deliver+a+questionnaire%2C+as+well+as+analyse+Twitter+data%2C+to+understand+people%E2%80%99s+perceptions+and+activities+related+to+religious+activities+online.+Importantly%2C+we+also+analyse+the+temporal+variations+in+this+process%2C+by+analysing+a+period+of+3+months%3A+July-September+2020.+Additionally+to+the+separate+analysis+of+the+two+data+sources%2C+we+also+discuss+the+implications+from+triangulating+the+results.&rft.subject=Social+data+mining%2C+Natural+language+processing%2C+Twitter&rft.publisher=IEEE&rft.date=2024-01-22&rft.type=Proceedings+paper&rft.language=eng&rft.source=+++++In%3A++Proceedings+of+the+2023+IEEE+International+Conference+on+Big+Data+(BigData).++(pp.+pp.+5704-5713).++IEEE%3A+Sorrento%2C+Italy.+(2024)+++++&rft.format=text&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F10187976%2F1%2FYu_2212.11121.pdf&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F10187976%2F&rft.rights=open