Volume 40 - Article 25 | Pages 693–724

Happy parents’ tweets: An exploration of Italian Twitter data using sentiment analysis

By Letizia Mencarini, Delia Irazú Hernández Farías, Mirko Lai, Viviana Patti, Emilio Sulis, Daniele Vignoli

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