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Item Trigger Event and Hate Content: Insights from Twitter Analytics(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019) Chetty, N.; Alathur, S.The problematic act damages the target and seeds the fear in the neighborhood. Social media sites are used for planning and coordinating problematic acts. The problematic act is a trigger event which influences hatred feeling. The objective of the paper is to analyze the aftermath of a recent problematic incident in the southern part of the Asian continent from Twitter content. After the problematic incident, citizens used to share their views over social media sites. A total of 48,819 opinions shared through Twitter social media are collected and analyzed using the software developed in the R programming language. The results show hatred against the problematic act through different related emotions. Results also contain more negative tweets which are almost thrice the positive tweets. Fear and anger emotions exhibit a high degree of emotions than the other. © 2019 IEEE.Item Developing Indian Smart Cities: Insights from Social Media(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2020) Chetty, N.; Alathur, S.Smart cities play an important role in overall development of a nation by progressing with economic, environmental and social domains. India has projected to create 100 smart cities in near future. The purpose of the paper is to identify the key influencing components and the social media users’ expectations for smart cities development in India. The Twitter social media content of smart cities council and the user posts on smart cities are collected through Twitter application programming interface. The collected tweets are cleaned by pre-processing methods and analyzed for insights. Technology, infrastructure, innovation, transport, mobility and management are the key influencing components for smart cities development in India. The social media users are expecting to emphasize on combating the issues like Covid-19 and use of IoT technology for the success of smart cities project. The integration of different components could increase the success of the project. The analysis of the content shared by the groups (smart cities council and the social media users) which are at different sides of smart cities’ development project, increases the novelty of the study. © 2020, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.Item Climate Change and COVID-19 Metaphors: Environmental Consciousness in Social Media(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021) Chetty, N.; Alathur, S.The changes in environmental conditions have reportable impacts on the Covid-19 pandemic and vice versa. About these impacts, the people are deliberating metaphorically on climate change and Covid-19. The purpose of the paper is to analyze and identify the people's consciousness about the interrelationship between climate change and Covid-19. The existing literature on climate change and impacts on Covid-19 are reviewed, and inferences have been drawn from the result. Apart from the literature review, the Twitter social media content is analyzed and interpreted. The results have shown that there are noticeable impacts of climate change on Covid-19 and vice-versa. The people are conscious of the relationship between climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic. © 2021 IEEE.