主办单位:成都体育学院
ISSN 1001-9154 CN 51-1097/G8

Journal of Chengdu Sport University ›› 2023, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (4): 33-39.doi: 10.15942/j.jcsu.2023.04.005

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What Are We Talking about When We Talk about Eileen Gu——Topic Mining Based on the Social Media Comments of Eileen Gu Winning the Beijing Winter Olympics

HUANG Lu1,2, ZENG Yunjing1, LIU Bo1   

  1. 1. Division of Sports Science and Physical Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084;
    2. Department of Physical Education, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan Hebei 063210
  • Received:2022-07-20 Revised:2023-03-24 Online:2023-07-15 Published:2023-08-09

Abstract: The victory of Eileen Gu in the Beijing Winter Olympics sparked a heated discussion on the Internet. The content of social media comments at the moment when Eileen Gu won the championship in the Beijing Winter Olympics was excavated and analyzed on the basis of the LDA topic model, and the six topic clustering results were shown as follows: Topic 1 focused on Eileen Gu's outstanding athletic performance and media performance. Topic 2 highlighted the family background factors of Eileen Gu's growth. Topic 3 focused on the pan-entertainment topic of Eileen Gu's victory and the spread of "circle expansion". Topic 4 commented on social enlightenment topics: Eileen Gu's dual identities as "World Champion" and "Curve Wrecker". In Topic5 the social cognition of "Eileen Gu is Chinese" was constructed. In Topic 6, the controversial topic of Eileen Gu's naturalization and national identity was focused. The ''Eileen Gu phenomenon'' is a typical case of the ''The Crossover" Olympic community. Discussions on Eileen Gu's topics have been extended to a series of fields, namely, education, pan-entertainment, social identity, Sino-US relations, etc. Based on the co-occurrence term analysis of LDA theme, the context of the Sino-US power game is the hidden line that shapes the relationship between the topics of social media comments on the "Eileen Gu phenomenon".

Key words: Beijing Winter Olympics, social media, comment topics, athlete naturalization, Eileen Gu

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