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%A Aduragba, Olanrewaju Tahir
%A Yu, Jialin
%A Cristea, Alexandra I
%C Sorrento, Italy
%D 2024
%F discovery:10187976
%I IEEE
%K Social data mining, Natural language processing, Twitter
%P 5704-5713
%T Religion and Spirituality on Social Media in the Aftermath of the Global Pandemic
%U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10187976/
%V 2023
%X During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Church closed its physical doors for the first time in about 800 years, which is, arguably, a cataclysmic event. Other religions have found themselves in a similar situation, and they were practically forced to move online, which is an unprecedented occasion. In this paper, we analyse this sudden change in religious activities twofold: we create and deliver a questionnaire, as well as analyse Twitter data, to understand people’s perceptions and activities related to religious activities online. Importantly, we also analyse the temporal variations in this process, by analysing a period of 3 months: July-September 2020. Additionally to the separate analysis of the two data sources, we also discuss the implications from triangulating the results.
%Z This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.