Corrado Monti, Alessandro Rozza, Giovanni Zappella, Matteo Zignani, Adam Arvidsson, and Elanor Colleoni.
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Issues of Sentiment Discovery and Opinion Mining (WISDOM '13), KDD 2013 Workshop, ACM.
The rise of political alienation reflects growing detachment from institutions even within stable democracies. Using over 35 million Italian tweets, this study applies machine learning time-series models to track expressions of disaffection and compare them with survey indicators of public trust. The analysis demonstrates that collective sentiment on social media mirrors shifts in public opinion, revealing how online discourse can function as a real-time barometer of civic disengagement.