Tweet for Democracy: Examining the Monitorial Citizen
Author(s)
Leung, Sook Yee
Corral, Raul
Smith, Gerald
Pink, Ryan
Roper, Gregory
Issue Date
2014-03-01
Keyword(s)
presidential election 2012
political engagement
Twitter
sentiment analysis
monitorial citizen
Date of Ingest
2014-02-25T19:31:08Z
Abstract
In the 2012 US presidential election, there was concern about voter turnout. Since Obama for America's use of social media during 2008 Presidential elections, there has been growing speculation of social media becoming a medium for re-engaging citizens in politics. Hence, social media's role in political engagement and the nature of political engagement were examined via three analyses of Twitter data (i.e. network posting frequency, sentiment analysis, and social network analysis) and one survey study. The results showed that Twitter's impact on political engagement is simply about spreading awareness -- it still depends on whether open-minded, and politically and civically interested users see the politically relevant tweets.
Publisher
iSchools
Series/Report Name or Number
iConference 2014 Proceedings
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
Conference Poster
Language
english
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/47334
DOI
https://doi.org/10.9776/14407
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