Research on the Evolution Trend of Internet Public Opinion under the “Russian Terrorist Attack” Incident

Abstract

In recent years, the international community frequent emergencies, but also by the Internet users are highly concerned, the public opinion generated from the outbreak of the beginning gradually intensified, and finally gradually dissipated. Therefore, for the government departments, how to appease the negative emotions of netizens and guide and deal with public opinion is particularly important. In this paper, the event of "Russian terrorist attack" on March 23, 2024 is selected as the research object, and all comments under the video with "Russian terrorist attack" as the keyword of station b are obtained by Python crawler. Meanwhile, LDA topic identification and SnowNLP analysis are used to explore the time evolution process of public opinion. Finally, the evolution trend of public opinion is summarized by comparing the change of theme and emotion analysis based on time. This research is helpful for national security departments to monitor public opinion and guide public opinion correctly at a timely time, and is also conducive to analyzing the dynamic trend of public opinion behind major social emergencies. The evolution trend of Internet public opinion will be affected by opinion leaders and government departments. Therefore, in the incubation period and fermentation period of public opinion, public opinion monitoring should be strengthened to avoid the breeding of improper remarks. In the period of public opinion outbreak, we should correctly guide the direction of public opinion, realize the information disclosure, and achieve the transparency of the event report; In the period when public opinion dissipates, preventive measures should be developed to prevent such incidents from happening again, and the quality education of the public should be strengthened.