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BRITISH FOOD JOURNAL
卷 124, 期 12, 页码 4718-4735出版社
EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1108/BFJ-07-2021-0823
关键词
Communicative ecology theory; Food waste; Halloween; LDA model; Public awareness; Twitter
This study examines people's awareness of pumpkin waste during Halloween through social media analysis, discovering that people are conscious of the issue and actively share recipes to reduce waste.
Purpose This study aims to understand pumpkin waste awareness among people by converting unstructured quantitative data into insightful information to understand the public's awareness of pumpkin waste during Halloween. Design/methodology/approach To fulfil the study's purpose, we extracted Halloween-related tweets by employing #halloween and #pumpkin hashtags and then investigated Halloween-related tweets via a topic modelling approach, specifically Latent Dirichlet Allocation. The tweets were collected from the UK between October 25th and November 7th, 2020. The analysis was completed with 11,744 tweets. Findings The topic modelling results revealed that people are aware of the pumpkin waste during Halloween. Furthermore, people tweet to reduce pumpkin waste by sharing recipes for using leftover pumpkins. Originality/value The study offers a novel approach to convert social media data into meaningful knowledge about public perception of food waste. This paper contributes to food waste literature by revealing people's awareness of pumpkin waste during Halloween using social media analytics. Norm activation model and communicative ecology theory are used for the theoretical underpinning of topic modelling.
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