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Pipeline of extracting emotion, lyrical themes, and the function of music from tweets. Red circles represent BERT word embeddings and the purple, yellow, and blue circles symbolize the different embeddings obtained from social surrogacy statements belonging to different categories.
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Music sharing trends have been shown to change during times of socio-economic crises. Studies have also shown that music can act as a social surrogate, helping to significantly reduce loneliness by acting as an empathetic friend. We explored these phenomena through a novel study of online music sharing during the Covid-19 pandemic in India. We coll...
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... the Twitter API 4 , we collected tweets that were geotagged as India that contained a Spotify URL for tracks during the first and second wave of the pandemic (see Figure 2). As per the WHO 5 dashboard of Covid-19 cases, the peak of Wave-1 and Wave-2 in India was recorded on September 14, 2020 and May 3, 2021 respectively. ...
