'It seems there is a shift from the need for spectacle to the celebration of common humanity this year,' said an anthropologist.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - The Covid-19 pandemic has not dampened online activity surrounding this year's National Day.
The Straits Times worked with Quilt.AI, an artificial intelligence-powered research and tech company, to analyse more than 6,000 tweets - with bots and retweets excluded - over the same two-week period before National Day last year and this year. While about 40 per cent of tweets in 2019 were characterised as"celebrating spectacle" - including in their posts ideas like"singing","concert","exhibition" - this had halved to just 20 per cent this year.
"This authenticity is an outcome of a reimagination of what is important in life. The pandemic has created an existential threat by removing access to familiar markers of identity all of us are now connecting to something deeper." Dr Chowdhry notes:"The sociopolitical commentary is increasing, but negativity is not, suggesting that a desire for constructive engagement with civil society is on the rise."
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