TY  - GEN
AV  - public
Y1  - 2024/01/22/
CY  - Sorrento, Italy
TI  - Religion and Spirituality on Social Media in the Aftermath of the Global Pandemic
EP  - 5713
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/bigdata59044.2023.10386754
ID  - discovery10187976
T3  - IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData)
N2  - 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.
SP  - 5704
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
PB  - IEEE
A1  - Aduragba, Olanrewaju Tahir
A1  - Yu, Jialin
A1  - Cristea, Alexandra I
KW  - Social data mining
KW  -  Natural language processing
KW  -  Twitter
ER  -