Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Allen, D.E.
Author-Name-Last: Allen
Author-Name-First: David
Author-Name: McAleer, M.J.
Author-Name-Last: McAleer
Author-Name-First: Michael
Author-Person: pmc90
Title: Fake News and Propaganda: Trump's Democratic America and Hitler's National Socialist (Nazi) Germany
Abstract: This paper features an analysis of President Trump's two State of the Union addresses,
 which are analysed by means of various data mining techniques including
 sentiment analysis. The intention is to explore the contents and sentiments
 of the messages contained, the degree to which they differ, and their potential
 implications for the national mood and state of the economy. In order to provide
 a contrast and some parallel context, analyses are also undertaken of President
 Obama's last State of the Union address and Hitler's 1933 Berlin Proclamation.
 The structure of these four political addresses is remarkably similar. The three
 US Presidential speeches are more positive emotionally than Hitler's relatively
 shorter address, which is characterized by a prevalence of negative emotions.
 However, it should be said that the economic circumstances in contemporary
 America and Germany in the 1930s are vastly different
Length: 21
Creation-Date: 2019-03-19
File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/115615/EI2019-17.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Series: RePEc:ems:eureir
Number: EI2019-17
Classification-JEL: C19, C65, D79
Keywords: Text Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Word Cloud, Emotional Valence
Handle: RePEc:ems:eureir:115615