Comunicazione politica e territorialità. Una Sentiment Analysis per Toni Iwobi

A political and territoriality communication. A Sentiment Analysis for Tony Iwobi Following a brief survey into the election of immigrants into Italian political parties, this study will concentrate on the case of the Nigerian Senator Tony Iwobi, who was recently elected into the ranks of the League “Lega”. Iwobi’s election is the starting point for the deepening of new communicative processes in which the immigrants in Italy are seen as the protagonists. Given the ability that Social Media has to narrate the trends of a contemporary election campaign, this qualitative study will be carried out by a semantic analysis methodology of the web known as Opinion Mining: the Sentiment Analysis. Through the use of this tool it is our intention to understand which emotional elements contributed to the election of Iwobi, if there are, what they amount to and if new insights are apparent; a) Into how Italians perceive immigrants b) Into how immigrants perceive Italians The corpus in this pilot phase is limited to six newspapers; Il Fatto Quotidiano, Corriere della Sera, Repubblica, Stampa, Messaggero e Il Mattino which however, allows us to cover the entire Italian territory as a field of investigation. They are able to provide us with information about the feelings which have brought about the Iwobi phenomenon.