Theology and Twitter

The aim of this project is to observe how christianity and religion are portrayed and discussed in Twitter.

Publications:

Cooper, A. P., Kolog, E. A. & Sutinen, E. (2020). “Exploring the use of machine learning to automate the qualitative coding of church-related tweets”. Fieldwork in Religion. IN PRESS.

Cooper, A. P. (2018). “Using geotagged Twitter data to uncover hidden church populations” In The Desecularisation of the City: London’s Churches, 1980 to the Present, edited by David Goodhew and Anthony-Paul Cooper. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 134-147.

Cooper, A. P. (2017). “Assessing the possible relationship between the sentiment of church-related tweets and church growth”. Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 46(1), 37-49.

Cooper, A. P. (2014). “Unwrapping Camden’s church tweeters: A small-scale thematic study of Twitter data”. In K. Woodfield (Ed.), “Social Media in Social Research: Blogs on Blurring the Boundaries”. eBook, NatCen Social Research, London, UK.