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dc.contributor.authorSurucu-Balci, Ebru
dc.contributor.authorBerberoglu, B.
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-10T09:34:23Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-16T09:46:43Z
dc.date.available2022-03-10T09:34:23Z
dc.date.available2022-03-16T09:46:43Z
dc.date.issued03/11/2022
dc.identifier.citationSurucu-Balci E and Berberoglu B (2022) Wasted Pumpkins: A Real Halloween Horror Story. British Food Journal. 124(12): 4718-4735.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/18780
dc.descriptionYes
dc.description.abstractPurpose 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.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectPumpkin waste
dc.subjectHalloween
dc.subjectFood waste
dc.subjectSocial media analytics
dc.titleWasted Pumpkins: A Real Halloween Horror Storyen_US
dc.status.refereedYes
dc.date.application22/02/2022
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.versionAccepted manuscript
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-07-2021-0823
dc.rights.licenseCC-BY-NCen_US
dc.date.updated2022-03-10T09:34:26Z
refterms.dateFOA2022-03-16T09:47:06Z
dc.openaccess.statusopenAccess
dc.date.accepted02/02/2022


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