#andràtuttobene: Images, Texts, Emojis and Geodata in a Sentiment Analysis Pipeline

Abstract

This research investigates Instagram users’ sentiment narrated during the lockdown period in Italy, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic The study is based on the analysis of all the posts published on Instagram under the hashtag #andratuttobene on May 4, May 18 and June 3, 2020 Our research carried out a view on a national, regional and provincial scale We analyzed all the different languages and forms (i e captions, hashtags, emojis and images) that constitute the posts The aim of this research is to provide a set of procedures revealing the different polarity trends for each kind of expression and to propose a single comprehensive measure Copyright © 2020 for this paper by its authors