Exploring Weibo users’ attitudes toward lesbians and gays in Mainland China: A natural language processing and machine learning approach
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Highlights：
• 1,813,218 posts pertaining to lesbians/gays from January 1, 2010, to December 31, 2019, were collected and analyzed.
• Weibo users' general attitudes, feelings, and support for the rights of lesbians and gays were relatively positive.
• Weibo users are becoming increasingly supportive and accepting of the rights of lesbian and gay people.
• The knowledge of Weibo users toward lesbians and gays was relatively inaccurate.
• No significant differences were found for education with respect to the Weibo users' knowledge of lesbians and gays.
摘要
•1,813,218 posts pertaining to lesbians/gays from January 1, 2010, to December 31, 2019, were collected and analyzed.•Weibo users' general attitudes, feelings, and support for the rights of lesbians and gays were relatively positive.•Weibo users are becoming increasingly supportive and accepting of the rights of lesbian and gay people.•The knowledge of Weibo users toward lesbians and gays was relatively inaccurate.•No significant differences were found for education with respect to the Weibo users' knowledge of lesbians and gays.
论文关键词：Lesbian,Gay,Attitude,Weibo,China
论文评审过程：Received 27 April 2021, Revised 18 August 2021, Accepted 10 September 2021, Available online 11 September 2021, Version of Record 15 September 2021.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.107021
