#PuertoRicoSeLevanta: A Closer Look at the Language Used on the First-Year Anniversary of Hurricane Maria.

In September of 2017, Puerto Rico was hit by Hurricane María. Reactions to the hurricane were widely discussed on the social media site Twitter. The principal aim of the study was to examine the psychological processes of tweets one-year after Hurricane Maria and compare patterns of psychological processes within tweets originating from Puerto Rico relative to tweets originating from the continental United States and other countries.

#4645Boricuas: Twitter reactions to the estimates of deaths by Hurricane María in Puerto Rico.

This study explores the sentiment expressed by Twitter users after the Harvard University report was released, reporting a death estimate of 4,645 Puerto Ricans following Hurricane María. Researchers utilized the NVivo addition NCapture to collect Twitter data including the hashtag #4645Boricuas. Thematic content analyses explored emergent themes within the hashtag.