Landscape perception: analyzing environmental discourse in Spanish-speaking Central and South America using Twitter data

Abstract

This paper attempts to fill a research gap by studying landscape perception through the lens of Twitter data. While existing studies on landscape perception are often based on surveys or visual analysis, there is little research that uses social media data to investigate the topic.Social media platforms, which produce a large amount of user-generated data, o!er a unique opportunity to study landscape perception over time and across geographical space. This thesis is based on a dataset of almost 1 billion Tweets in the Spanish language Show more