What Italians Say Online about the landslide of Ischia

The controversy over the umpteenth disaster that this time hit

While the rescuers are working to return, as far as possible, to normal, and recover the last missing, the front pages of the newspapers and the news openings are all for what is

In this regard

have polled the Internet to understand the reactions of Italians to this disaster.

Online conversations were analyzed

from the night of the landslide,

to the early hours of today

In the period examined, there were a total of just under

, in Italian, relating to Ischia, by unique authors, whose contents involved (with

) almost

.

The maximum peak was recorded between

when the leader of Italia Viva,

tweeted a controversial content regarding what was achieved during the

government .

The volume of conversations generated a potential reach, the so-called

" (i.e. the opportunity they theoretically had on the basis of these volumes of conversations to be exposed to content relating to the flood),

.

We reasonably estimate that the actual reach stands at

, of actual views of content related to the tragedy.

Online conversations with a

as regards the sentiment, the share of emotions and, precisely, negative feelings contained in the online verbalizations.

Negativity which, as shown by the word

, the cloud of words with the 120 most recurring terms, is focused not only on facts but also on possible causes, such as

which, having generated

were then accelerated by the 2018 decree. And in fact, as shown by the

most used emojis, pain, with broken hearts and crying smileys, is associated with

.